Midland Bank And Attached Railings

The building is a bank, constructed between 1915 and 1916 by Lawson and Thomas Whinney. It occupies a corner site on Market Place and Cricklade Street in Cirencester and is built of Portland stone ashlar with a Delabole slate roof. The design is in a simple Edwardian Baroque style, incorporating a circular turret at the corner.

The Market Place elevation is two storeys and an attic, with a two-window range. The first floor has two six-over-six pane horned sash windows within moulded stone architraves, featuring moulded stone sills and aprons below. The ground floor contains two large 20th-century windows. Attached to the front is a Doric colonnade on a stone base, with panels of serpentine wrought-iron railings. The colonnade features paired columns to the left and right, a single column in the centre, a frieze, and a bracketed cornice.

The elevation is characterised by rusticated pilaster strips, a full entablature, and a modillion eaves cornice. A flat-topped dormer in the attic has a triple six-over-four pane horned sash window. The turret on the corner has a curved six-over-six pane horned sash window to the first floor, with a flat panel surround incorporating recessed Doric half-pilasters, a frieze, and a moulded cornice. A raised panel above continues to the eaves cornice. The ground floor features a pair of six-panel hardwood doors with a moulded architrave, bracketed frieze, and cornice, topped by a keystone with carved decoration including cartouches and ribbons. The ground floor cornice continues from the Market Place elevation. A lead-covered Baroque dome, topped with a lead finial, crowns the building.

The right side elevation, facing Cricklade Street, is six windows wide and similarly styled. A four-panel door is located at the far right, below a coped gable finished as a carved bracket. The interior of the building was not inspected.

The group value context recognises the building's architectural and historical significance.