Survey Data
Reg No
20844204
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Artistic, Historical, Scientific, Social
Previous Name
Bandon Savings Bank
Original Use
Bank/financial institution
Historical Use
Clubhouse
In Use As
Meeting house
Date
1830 - 1840
Coordinates
149025, 55167
Date Recorded
29/04/2009
Date Updated
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Description
Attached pedimented three-bay two-storey former bank, built 1835, later in use as Masonic hall, now in use as Jehovah's Witnesses meeting house. Hipped slate roof with rendered eaves course and uPVC rainwater goods. Tooled limestone cornice and lead-clad coping to pediment over tooled limestone parapet, having architrave, frieze and cornice. Roughcast rendered wall to front elevation having tooled limestone quoins and cast-iron bracing plate to ground floor, tooled limestone platband, central name plaque, and panelled pilasters to first floor. Lined-and-ruled rendered walls with plinth and lead-clad platband to side (south-east) elevation. Square-headed window openings with tooled limestone sills throughout, having replacement timber casement windows. Round-headed door opening to front elevation, having limestone stepped approach, tooled limestone voussoirs and surround. Replacement timber panelled door and spoked fanlight. Rendered enclosing plinth to front having tooled limestone coping and piers with cast-iron railings.
Appraisal
A classically inspired building which adopted the temple form often utilised by banks in the first part of the nineteenth century, as it inspired a sense of longevity and permanence. Its is a finely designed and detailed building, which forms part of an imposing group with the court house and town hall to the south-east. It has played a number of roles in the local community, as in 1890 it became the Masonic Hall of Lodge 84 or Ancient Boyne, and it is now (2009) a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses.