Trustee Savings Bank 9 Church Crescent Dumfries

J E Gregan of Manchester with Alexander Crombie of Dumfries, 1847. Neo-Classical. 2-storey bank with rusticated ground floor with decorative band course over, end bays advanced with flat-arched doorway with Vanbrughian projecting voussoirs, distyle Roman Ionic-columned upper floor, framing corniced windows with balustraded aprons: central bay 3 arched windows at ground, Corinthian pilastered Venetian feature above, central niche containing painted stone statue of Rev Henry Duncan of Ruthwell, by John Currie of Dumfries, inscription panel in apron beneath, sidelights have balustraded aprons. Entablature, with parapet raised at centre. Ground floor windows have margin-panes, upper windows with plate glass sashes. Interior: Ionic columned screen in banking hall.

Reference    Dictionary of Scottish Architects
Reference    Gifford, John    1996    Dumfries and Galloway (The Buildings of Scotland) p278
Reference    APSD The Dictionary of Architecture ed Wyatt Papworth. The Architectural Publication Society (8v 1852-1892