Former Royal Bank of Scotland - Chapel Street, Salford



This former Williams Deacons Bank on Chapel Street in Salford was built circa 1880.  Over the years it became a Williams & Glyn's Bank and most recently a Royal Bank of Scotland.  The building is Grade II Listed and described by English Heritage as, "Ashlar-faced over brick with steeply pitched Welsh slate roof with scallop bands and wrought-iron brattishing. Gables with stone copings and stacks. 3 storeys with attic. 4-window range, with sashes recessed behind surrounds with trefoiled heads. Second-floor windows form part of an arcaded treatment of pointed arches carried on engaged shafts with foliate capitals. Above this, decorated brackets support projecting string course and water spouts with parapet and 2 gabled dormers. Ground floor has 2 windows flanked by doorway each side, all with semicircular heads. Main door to left-hand side has carved lintel with round glazed openings to tympanum; right-hand opening divided by stone mullion to give narrow side window. Carved lintel with trefoils. Pilasters between central windows have foliate capitals"




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