Description

SOUTHPORT

SD3317SE LORD STREET
664-1/12/82 (West side)
15/11/72 No.331
Midland Bank

GV II*

Bank. 1888-9, by EW Johnson, for the Preston Banking Company.
Sandstone ashlar with some grey granite and polished pink
granite; roof concealed but probably slate. Roman Corinthian
style. Basilican form.
EXTERIOR: one tall architectural storey in 3 bays, in a
windowless symmetrical design, with a shallow pedimented
portico to the centre; a low base of punch-dressed grey
granite, a high panelled plinth (some panels now containing
metal safes), giant terminal pilasters and coupled
free-standing columns to the portico all of polished pink
granite with sandstone capitals, entablature with dentilled
frieze and modillioned cornice, pediment containing crest of
arms with heavily foliated surround and surmounted by figure
of Britannia, and balustraded parapets to the outer bays with
gadrooned urns.
The portico contains a tall round-headed doorway in a
pedimented architrave with stepped jambs of grey granite,
moulded head with cartouche keyblock, carved spandrels, frieze
lettered: PRESTON BANK, and dentilled and modillioned pediment
with a swag; above this a 3-light blind window with carved
sill and mullions.
The narrow flanking bays each have a tall richly-carved panel
with branches entwining a cartouche with shield of arms
(Southport to left, Preston to right).
INTERIOR: large rectangular hall surrounded by Corinthian
columns and pilasters of polished granite on panelled
pedestals, a prominent dentilled and modillioned cornice,
coved ceiling and very large concave brackets with moulded
plaster enrichment carrying a large domed rectangular
skylight.
Forms group with Nos 315-325 to the left (qv) and Nos 335 &
337 adjoining to the right (qv).

Listing NGR: SD3362017360

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17535880

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