MELBOURNE SAVINGS BANK, 94 Errol Street, North Melbourne
Graeme Butler and AssociatesJuly 1991
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MELBOURNE SAVINGS BANK, 94 Errol Street, North Melbourne
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July 1991
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BIF-NORTH 103505
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GRAEME BUTLER 1983, CONSERVATION STUDY FOR THE CITY OF MELBOURNE OF NORTH AND WEST MELBOURNEOFFICES, FORMER MELBOURNE SAVINGS BANK,94 ERROL STREET, NORTH MELBOURNEAllotment Pt.18 Section 7Grantee J. Brown, J. Stewart, 1852Built 1891-2Value: A.History - Early Savings Banks, from the Derwent (1838) to the Savings Bank of Port Phillip (1842), commenced the emergence of many other private banking groups: the latter hank becoming the Melbourne Savings Bank and eventually the State owned, State Savings Bank of Victoria. This Hotham branch opened under William H. Badham (manager), in 1882, on this site but in a brick shop and residence built in c1858 by chemist Henry Barnes (qv), and leased to the bank for a year before they purchased it. The branch became `North Melbourne' in 1888 and in 1891, the bank's current architects, Wight and Lucas designed these premises and A. Parler built them.Alterations were carried out in 1913, 1928 by Billing, Peck and Kempter, architects, until the sale of the bank in 1959 to F.G. Strang.. Other banks by Wright and Lucas include Richmond, Clifton Hill and Williamstown, the most comparable being at Hawthorn.Description - A two-storey, stuccoed brick and parapetted former banking chambers and residence, with an impressive bayed facade and ground-level smooth rustication. Segment-arched pediments surmount the two flanking bays of the facade, with duplex Corinthian order pilasters supporting each associated entablature as Trabeated overlayers to the arcuated facade. Balustrading is used in the central parapet bay and in the podium of the upper level trabeation. The serlian motif is implied, by colonettes attached to the side lower-level openings, whilst it is used in the centre window. The resultant lunettes have pronounced keystones and mannered impost moulds.Integrity - External blinds have been added to upper levels which obscure the arches, the door has been replaced and the doorway altered.Streetscape - Highly contributing part of the Errol Street commercial streetscape with earlier, but similar buildings on either side (109-98, 96,92): one of which also uses the serlian motif (96).Significance - Architecturally, skilfully composed trabeated and arcuated, mannered facade: in near original condition; unusually well ornamented building given the scale and secondary branch nature of the bank: an uncommon use of flanking, arched pediments as compared with the normal gabled, central pediment in bank or commercial architecture; and contributive to the streetscape: of State importance.Historically, one of about 14 known Savings Banks in Victoria, built prior to 1900; one of the few banks built in North and West Melbourne prior to 1900: of State interest and local importance..RecommendationsRestore doorway and door;remove external blinds;repaint in original or typical colours..References:(RB= Rate book; D= Melbourne or Victoria Directory)1 Victorian Year Book , 1973, pps. 337f2 RB 1858, 642; RB 1882-3, 1622; RB1890-1, 16443 SSB Archives4 Trethowan p. 13
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