National Westminster Bank / Premises Occupied By National Provincial Bank

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

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

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0920 IOE Records taken by Brian Harris; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr Brian Harris. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project