Midland Bank, Oswestry, Shropshire

Photograph taken February 1996 © Copyright Crown copyright.NMR ref: BB96/01338

This bank was built in 1890 by Grayson and Ould. It is built in a neo-Tudor style of red brick with ashlar dressings. Tudor and Medieval styling were both popular ways of displaying wealth in Victorian society.

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Shropshire Oswestry

Period

Victorian (1837 - 1901)

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The Corn Exchange in Doncaster was built in 1870 and combines Victorian classical architecture with a dome reminiscent of that on the Crystal Palace, built 20 years earlier for the Great Exhibition (1851). The Corn Exchange is now used as a market hall.

Midland Bank, Oswestry, Shropshire

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