11 Churchyard Side, Nantwich

The present building was constructed in 1876 as a branch of the Midland Bank, to the design of Nantwich architect Thomas Bower. It was on the site of an earlier Midland Bank building, which employed a manager and seven clerks in 1871. Once part of the cemetery of the parish church, the site had previously housed a painter and a butcher's premises. The Midland Bank is no longer listed in directories from 1892; Barclays Bank has occupied the building since 1939.

The bank is a terraced ashlar building in Gothic Revival style, with two storeys and seven bays. A band between ground and first floor is decorated with rectangular coffering, which matches the dentilled cornice under the eaves. There are also two plain stone bands, one on the ground floor beneath the windows and the other on the first floor at the level of the window heads. The main entrance is at the left (west) side. It is flanked by two sets of paired orange columns and headed by a pointed arch. Above is a V-shaped stone moulding with two carved bosses and an intricately carved quatrefoil containing a dragon and foliage. The word "bank" is incised above the entrance. There are two stone…