Midland Bank building, King Street, Manchester
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The Midland Bank building on King Street, Manchester, was designed by Edwin Lutyens in 1928. Built 1933-5.
A castle-like Art Deco building, surrounded moat-like by roads on all four sides, is the work of Sir Edwin Lutyens. Built with the help of engineers Whinney, Son & Austen Hall between 1933 and 1935, it features carvings by the local sculptor J Ashton Floyd. The layered style of the period is shown in the use of set back features and arches around the lower levels making this a truly classic Art Deco building. The building is a grade II* listed building [1]
The branch has been re-branded since Midland Bank became HSBC Bank after its takeover by HSBC in the 1990s. However, it is still widely known as the Midland Bank Building by local people.
On the 6th of June 2008 the King Street branch closed it's doors as a bank for the very last time as HSBC relocated their Manchester branch to St Ann's Square, it is unknown what the building will now be used for.
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