Lloyds Bank

WEYMOUTH

SY6779SE ST MARY STREET 873-1/20/328 (West side) 14/06/74 No.92 Lloyds Bank

GV II

Bank. Dated 1865. Limestone ashlar, slate double roof. A dignified Italianate facade in the Barry tradition, with slightly recssed centre bays, but unbroken cornice. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 1:3:1 windows, plain sashes to the upper floors and fixed glazing to ground floor. First-floor sashes are in moulded architraves, with narrow panels with rosettes to the centre 3 lights, and all to moulded and fluted sills. The first-floor lights have moulded architraves, eared and with flared feet, on a deep sill band with guilloche enrichment. These all have dentil cornices, the outer ones with triangular pediments. The channelled rustication has alternating quoins to the outer bays, and the centre windows, slightly set back, are divided by channelled pilasters with a form of Ionic cap. Ground floor has 5 arched openings with moulded architraves and key, responds, set back on deep sills at plinth level. The left-hand bay has a C20 pair of doors under an enriched architrave and decorated tympanum with oculus, and transom inscribed 'BANK'. The right-hand bay has been abbreviated by insertion of a cash dispensing machine. The windows are separated by channelled pilasters to simple caps. The entablature has a modillion cornice which is slightly weak for the remainder of the composition. Brick stacks to each gable end.

Listing NGR: SY6795479052