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Latitude: 53.2268 / 53°13'36"N
Longitude: -4.1256 / 4°7'32"W
OS Eastings: 258203
OS Northings: 372081
OS Grid: SH582720
Mapcode National: GBR 5Q.0LBM
Mapcode Global: WH547.L5N3
Plus Code: 9C5Q6VGF+PQ
Entry Name: National Westminster Bank
Listing Date: 17 April 1980
Last Amended: 2 August 1988
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 4028
Building Class: Commercial
ID on this website: 300004028
Location: On a bend in the road with lower shops to right.
County: Gwynedd
Community: Bangor
Community: Bangor
Built-Up Area: Bangor
Traditional County: Caernarfonshire
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Built 1860; architect, Henry Kennedy of Bangor - chosen as he was a customer of the Bank. Italian Renaissance palazzo style.
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.
The interior retains acanthus cornice to Banking Hall with tapered pilasters and Corinthian capitals; broad cove to right hand end.
Group value with Nos 252 to 256, opposite.
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