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26 Church Street, Inverness

By renowned architect James Matthews, 1863. Italianate former bank, ashlar 3 storeys, 3-bay fronts to Union Street and to Church Street. 1-bay bowed corner with segmental-arched columned doorpiece at ground floor, aediculed segmental-pedimented window at 1st floor, semi-circular headed gablet flanked by chimneys and topped by urn above cornice. Union Street and Church Street fronts: at ground floor round-arched windows with carved keystones, at 1st floor, windows aediculed, alternatively triangular and segmental-pedimented, with baluster aprons; at 2nd floor, lugged architraves. 2nd floor cill course. Consoled cornice and balustrade.

 

Originally Bank of Scotland. Total cost: £1267 12s 8d

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Uploaded on April 8, 2023
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