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National Westminster Bank

A Grade II Listed Building in Old Moat, Manchester

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.4348 / 53°26'5"N

Longitude: -2.2273 / 2°13'38"W

OS Eastings: 384993

OS Northings: 393136

OS Grid: SJ849931

Mapcode National: GBR DXWQ.LF

Mapcode Global: WHB9N.RXKP

Plus Code: 9C5VCQMF+W3

Entry Name: National Westminster Bank

Listing Date: 3 October 1974

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1270512

English Heritage Legacy ID: 458611

ID on this website: 101270512

Location: Withington, Manchester, Greater Manchester, M20

County: Manchester

Electoral Ward/Division: Old Moat

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Manchester

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester

Church of England Parish: Withington St Paul

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

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Description



MANCHESTER

SJ89SW WILMSLOW ROAD, Withington
698-1/8/848 (East side)
03/10/74 National Westminster Bank

II

Bank. Later C19. Sandstone ashlar. Rectangular single-storey
6-window banking hall in Jacobean style, symmetrical, with a
moulded plinth, moulded sill-band, drip-band stepped over the
windows, ball-flower and dart frieze, and pierced parapet with
ornamented upstands and corbelled tourelles at the corners.
The central entrance has a basket-arched doorway under an
elaborate porch in the form of a corbelled-out shaped-gable
canopy carried on 2 slender marble columns with foliated caps,
enrichment to the gable including corner tourelles and an
elaborate cartouche inscribed "Manchester and County Bank
Ltd". Each side of the entrance are 3 large cross-windows with
slender shafts, 2 large arched lights below the transom and 4
small arched lights above. Hipped roof with tall coupled
cylindrical chimneys on the ridge. Interior not inspected.


Listing NGR: SJ8499393136

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