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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