Union Bank of Manchester



On the corner of Chatham Street and Piccadilly is this former Union Bank of Manchester branch.  The Union Bank of Manchester traded between 1836 and 1940, although it was affiliated with Barclay's Bank from 1919 on.  Before this building closed as a bank, it had become a Barclay's branch. 



As the inscription indicates the building was erected in 1911.   Pevsner describes the building as  a "..powerful classical essay by Percy Scott Worthington.."