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Ulster Bank

Architect: Sir Thomas Drew
Interior Access


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One of the most magnificent bank buildings in the city with a pompous over-blown doorway, the customer enters with a sense of impending magnificence. Unfortunetly, the banking hall was demolished in 1876 "to improve the working conditions of staff". A bland interior is now masked behind the magnificence.