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Latitude: 53.5471 / 53°32'49"N
Longitude: -2.6314 / 2°37'52"W
OS Eastings: 358262
OS Northings: 405795
OS Grid: SD582057
Mapcode National: GBR BW2F.35
Mapcode Global: WH97Y.K35J
Plus Code: 9C5VG9W9+VF
Entry Name: National Westminster Bank
Listing Date: 11 July 1983
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1384514
English Heritage Legacy ID: 484948
Location: Wigan Central, Wigan, WN1
County: Wigan
Electoral Ward/Division: Wigan Central
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wigan
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Wigan All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
Tagged with: Bank building
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
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