National Westminster Bank
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 2 AND 4, STANDISHGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384514
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 2 AND 4, STANDISHGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1384514
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jul-1983
- List Entry Name:
- National Westminster Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK, 2 AND 4, STANDISHGATE
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, 2 AND 4, STANDISHGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wigan (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 58262 05795
Details
WIGAN
SD5805NW STANDISHGATE
24-1/7/65 (West side)
11/07/83 Nos.2 AND 4
National Westminster Bank
II
Bank. 1898, by William Owen for Parrs Bank; altered. Sandstone
ashlar, slate roof. Long narrow plan at right-angles to
street. Transitional French Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 3 bays; with a plinth of
polished granite, pilasters to all floors (variously
enriched), dentilled cornices to ground floor and 1st floor,
plain frieze and moulded cornice to 2nd floor, and a tall
pedimented gable to the centre, with finials. The ground floor
has a wide semi-elliptical arched 3-light window in the
centre, with 2 fluted Ionic colonnettes carrying the lintel,
carved bracket mullions to the overlight, and wide spandrels
filled with olive branch carving; and a square-headed doorway
to the right under a carved panel with an oculus. The 1st
floor has a large bowed and richly-foliated balcony to coupled
cross-windows in the centre (a large iron hanging sign
attached to the balcony), flanked by oculi with swan-neck
pedimented architraves; the 2nd floor has 4 cross-windows; and
the attic has a 2-light mullioned window.
INTERIOR: long narrow banking hall with composite pilasters,
2 large rectangular light wells "supported" by very large
foliated and voluted brackets (some parts concealed by C20
partitioning).
Listing NGR: SD5826205795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 484948
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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