Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
National Westminster Bank
Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 17 April 1980
- Community
- Bangor
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.22679, -4.12557
- Cadw reference
- 4028
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1896 "Sheet 7. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On a bend in the road with lower shops to right.
History
Built 1860; architect, Henry Kennedy of Bangor - chosen as he was a customer of the Bank. Italian Renaissance palazzo style.
Exterior
3-storey, 5-bay front; snecked rubble with freestone ground floor and dressings, including 1st floor cornice band, dentil eaves and saw-tooth and dentil cornice. Deeply recessed sash windows with keystones to 2nd floor, round headed to 1st floor with anchor shaped finials and continuous impost band. Overall 1st floor balcony with pierced balustrade, advanced over porch to extreme left; deep cornice with elongated fluted brackets continuing across the whole front (largely obscured by modern fascia). Panelled pilasters flanking chamfered arched entrance with ornate ironwork tympanum over double panelled doors. Paired Venetian style 2-light banking hall windows to centre with foliage carved capitals to shafts and panelled spandrels and apron; altered to right by inserted cash dispenser.
Interior
The interior retains acanthus cornice to Banking Hall with tapered pilasters and Corinthian capitals; broad cove to right hand end.
Reason for designation
Group value with Nos 252 to 256, opposite.
Nearby in the register
- J.Welch & Co.Commercialunder 1 mi
- The Coffee PotCommercialunder 1 mi
- Oliver'sCommercialunder 1 mi
- Penrhyn HallCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.