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Latitude: 53.7577 / 53°45'27"N
Longitude: -2.7025 / 2°42'9"W
OS Eastings: 353779
OS Northings: 429266
OS Grid: SD537292
Mapcode National: GBR T9G.FW
Mapcode Global: WH85M.GT94
Plus Code: 9C5VQ75W+3X
Entry Name: Midland Bank
Listing Date: 27 September 1979
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1292389
English Heritage Legacy ID: 391982
Also known as: Former HSBC bank
Sainsbury's Local, Preston
ID on this website: 101292389
Location: Preston, Lancashire, PR1
County: Lancashire
District: Preston
Electoral Ward/Division: Town Centre
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Preston
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Preston St John and St George the Martyr
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Bank building
SD5329SE
941-1/11/102
PRESTON
FISHERGATE (South side)
Nos. 39 AND 40 Midland Bank
27/09/79
II
Bank. 1856-7, by J.H.Park, for the Lancaster Banking Company.
Sandstone ashlar, slate roof. Deep rectangular plan at
right-angles to street. Italian palazzo style. Three storeys
and 5 bays, symmetrical, with rusticated vermiculated quoins,
plinth, cornice over ground floor with 4 bulldog masks,
sill-band to 2nd floor, enriched frieze with dentils over, and
prominent mutule cornice with 18 masks (carried round the
right-hand corner). The ground floor, treated as a 5-bay
arcade of round-headed arches with vermiculated quoined
surrounds and mask keystones, and with festoons between the
arches (pendent from the bulldog masks on the cornice), has
doorways with panelled doors in the outer bays, and windows
with altered glazing in the other bays (all now with modern
cashpoints and safes in the aprons). The 1st floor has
round-headed casement windows with pedimented Corinthian
architraves (the aprons now concealed by a modern signboard
lettered MIDLAND BANK); and the 2nd floor has short
segmental-headed casements with shoudered architraves. Chimney
at right-hand gable with prominent enriched cornice.
INTERIOR: fine banking hall with Corinthian columns and
pilasters, coffered ceiling with dentil frieze, egg-and-dart,
foliated modillions; 3-bay side-screens of round-headed
arches.
Listing NGR: SD5317329962
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