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LINCOLN
SK9771SW HIGH STREET
1941-1/11/156 (West side)
02/10/69 No.225
National Westminster Bank
GV II
Formerly known as: No.225 Premises occupied by National
Provincial Bank HIGH STREET.
Bank. 1883. By John Gibson. Ashlar and gault brick, with
hipped slate roof with lead verges. 8 ridge stacks with
dentilled cornices. Italianate style.
Plinth, sill band, rusticated ground floor, first floor band,
modillion eaves. 3 storeys, 7 bays. High Street front has 6
plain windows with round heads and keystones, and to right, a
moulded doorway with a tablet above it inscribed "Smith's
Bank", and a shell tympanum. Above, 7 plain sashes with
bracketed cornices. Above again, 7 smaller sashes with moulded
architraves.
Return front, to Mint Street, has to left a 5 bay version of
the High Street front. To the right, brick ranges, 2 and 4
storeys, 7 bays, in a simplified version of the same style.
INTERIOR has a restored banking hall with round headed blind
arches and 4 central Doric columns linked by round arches.
Panelled cross beam plaster ceiling.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 520).
Listing NGR: SK9750271261 | Subjects: | Building | Temporal: | 1883 | Source: | Lincolnshire County Council | Identifier: | http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/Re... | Go to resource |
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