Former Williams Deacon Bank
247, CHAPEL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386120
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Former Williams Deacon Bank
- Statutory Address:
- 247, CHAPEL STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1386120
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jan-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Oct-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Williams Deacon Bank
- Statutory Address 1:
- 247, CHAPEL STREET
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:
- 247, CHAPEL STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Salford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 82964 98519
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 21/06/2012
SJ8298NE
949-1/19/46
SALFORD
CHAPEL STREET
(South side)
No. 247
(Formerly listed as Royal Bank of Scotland)
(Formerly Listed as: CHAPEL STREET (South side) Williams and Glyn's Bank)
II
Formerly known as: Williams Deacons Bank CHAPEL STREET.
Bank. c1890. Ashlar-faced over brick with steeply pitched
Welsh slate roof with scallop bands and wrought-iron
brattishing. Gables with stone copings and stacks.
3 storeys with attic. 4-window range, with sashes recessed
behind surrounds with trefoiled heads. Second-floor windows
form part of an arcaded treatment of pointed arches carried on
engaged shafts with foliate capitals. Above this, decorated
brackets support projecting string course and water spouts
with parapet and 2 gabled dormers. Ground floor has 2 windows
flanked by doorway each side, all with semicircular heads.
Main door to left-hand side has carved lintel with round
glazed openings to tympanum; right-hand opening divided by
stone mullion to give narrow side window. Carved lintel with
trefoils. Pilasters between central windows have foliate
capitals.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Listing NGR: SJ8296498519
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471544
- 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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