Former ES & A Bank

STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

The former London Chartered Bank, erected in 1859, is a two storey structure with basement, using squared basalt for the carcass and ashlar Barrabool sandstone for the facade and parapets. This bank is an important example of a mid nineteenth century bank, in intact condition and appropriately and typically designed in the Renaissance Revival style. The finely detailed structure I one of the most distinguished of the large group of bank buildings designed by noted Victorian architect Leonard Terry. The London chartered Bank was established in Geelong at a time of great prosperity and reflects the influence of the gold rush and the wool boom upon this settlement

RECOMMENDATIONS: PROTECTIVE MEASURES

Geelong Regional Commission Register

Historic Building Council Register

REFERENCES

National Trust of Australia (Victoria), File No 255.

Bronwhill, W. R. - a History of Geelong and Corio Bay, Wilke and Co, Melbourne, 1955, p

Troppe, H - "Leonard and some of His Works" - History of Architecture, Research Essay, Department of Architecture, University of Melbourne, 1970, pp 40-42.

Geelong Advertiser - 4th March, 1859, tender notice, 18th February, 1960, 'Current Topics" detail's of progress of construction.

Sutherland, Alexander - Victorian and Its Metropolis, Past and Present - 2 Volumes, McCarron, Bird & Co, Melbourne, 1888 - Volume 2 p 153, biographical sketch of Alexander Dick, J. P.

Group

Commercial

Category

Bank