26 Mosley Street, National Westminster Bank

Bank. 1870-72 by Gibson for National Provincial Bank. Vermiculate sandstone base-
ment; sandstone ashlar with pink granite nook shafts to ground floor openings;
Welsh slate roof. Palladian style. Corner building. Basement sloping down to
left on hill; 3 storeys, 5 bays and entrance bay set back at right. Rusticated
ground has central door with overlight in pedimented doorcase; and in entrance
bay, doors in lugged architrave with BANK CHAMBERS incised above. Ground
floor round-headed fixed lights with archivolts, impost and sill strings and
panelled band beneath. Pedimented Ionic aedicules to first-floor sashes; architraves
to those second floor in giant Roman Doric order. Frieze to Mosley Street on
right inscribed NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND MDCCLXXI; to Dean Street on
left return THE NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND LIMD ESTABLISHED MDCCXXXIII.
High blocking course and tall, corniced, ashlar chimneys. Rear of No.10 St. Nicholas
Church Yard. LISTED GRADE 2