National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, MUMPS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201682
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, MUMPS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201682
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, MUMPS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, MUMPS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 93306 05160
Details
OLDHAM
SD90NW MUMPS 780-1/1/57 (North side) National Westminster Bank
II
Bank. 1902-3. By Mills and Murgatroyd. Ashlar, rusticated to ground floor, with polished granite plinth and Welsh slate roof. Flamboyant baroque style exploiting corner site. 2 storeys with tower, 7-window range. Tower over entrance at left-hand corner. Polished granite architrave with engaged shafts, bolection moulding and mask between scrolls in frieze. Shallow swept parapet over, with 'Bank' in raised lettering. Tripartite sash window behind the parapet. Modillion cornice above. Half octagonal stair turret to left hand corner, and bow window with balconette in return elevation. First stage of tower above has segmental pediment to cornice and transomed lights. Upper stage has heavy volutes to angles, and a pediment in each face carried on free standing polished granite columns with balustrading below recessed windows. Stone domed roof with fleche. Main range beyond entrance bay of 5 windows, divided by coupled engaged Corinthian columns carried on corbels above ground floor. Lower windows divided by colonettes, 2-pane sashes in segmentally-arched shouldered architraves above. First bay distinguished by use of plain pilasters which carry a segmental pediment with coat of arms. This is balanced by a similar bay to right, which has subsidiary entrance in segmentally-pedimented architrave. Modillion cornice and balustraded parapet which is stepped up over pediments at each end. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner, Nikolaus: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).
Listing NGR: SD9330605160
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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