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WIGAN

SD5805NW STANDISHGATE
24-1/7/65 (West side)
11/07/83 Nos.2 AND 4
National Westminster Bank

II

Bank. 1898, by William Owen for Parrs Bank; altered. Sandstone
ashlar, slate roof. Long narrow plan at right-angles to
street. Transitional French Renaissance style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic, 3 bays; with a plinth of
polished granite, pilasters to all floors (variously
enriched), dentilled cornices to ground floor and 1st floor,
plain frieze and moulded cornice to 2nd floor, and a tall
pedimented gable to the centre, with finials. The ground floor
has a wide semi-elliptical arched 3-light window in the
centre, with 2 fluted Ionic colonnettes carrying the lintel,
carved bracket mullions to the overlight, and wide spandrels
filled with olive branch carving; and a square-headed doorway
to the right under a carved panel with an oculus. The 1st
floor has a large bowed and richly-foliated balcony to coupled
cross-windows in the centre (a large iron hanging sign
attached to the balcony), flanked by oculi with swan-neck
pedimented architraves; the 2nd floor has 4 cross-windows; and
the attic has a 2-light mullioned window.
INTERIOR: long narrow banking hall with composite pilasters,
2 large rectangular light wells "supported" by very large
foliated and voluted brackets (some parts concealed by C20
partitioning).

Listing NGR: SD5826205795