Description

MANCHESTER

SJ8498SW SPRING GARDENS
698-1/28/377 (East side)
03/10/74 No.41

Formerly Listed as:
(SPRING GARDENS
No.41
Former Natwest Bank

(Formerly Listed as:
SPRING GARDENS
(East side)
Nos.41 TO 47 (Odd))

GV II

Offices, formerly bank. Dated 1890. By Alfred Waterhouse for the National Provincial Bank. Ashlar with slate roof and moulded ridge stacks. Corner site with facade curving round to return in York Street. French Renaissance style. 3 storeys and attic; 11-window range of mostly sashes with margin glazing in moulded architraves with curved pediments to 1st floor. C20 windows to ground floor. Doric pilasters define bays on ground floor and support a frieze from which rise Ionic pilasters with carved pedestals. These in turn support an entablature with cushion frieze and a row of paired sash dormers with elaborate gables and linked by arches. 2-storey gable to far right is dated 1890 and defines the main entrance which has paired doorways on ground floor with ornamental corbels, columns and balconies above. There is a similar single-bay entrance in York Street. Forms a group with Nos.43 and 45, and also No.47 (qv) to right.

Listing NGR: SJ8406598263

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26560705

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