91: Part of Old Bank Hotel
No. 91 dates from about 1800. It does not have a proper shop frontage downstairs, because originally it was a private house, and then a bank from 1908 to 1985.
It is a Grade II listed building (List Entry No. 1047249). It has always been in the parish of St Mary-the-Virgin. Since 1975 it has been owned by University College.
In 1772 a survey of every house in the city was taken in consequence of the Mileways Act of 1771. No. 91 was then in the occupation of a Mrs Hobson, and its frontage measured 12 yards 2 feet 0 inches.
By 1 September 1795 when Ann Weston married Herbert Parsons, her father Richard Weston had his ironmonger's shop here.
At the time of the 1841 census No. 91 was occupied by William Greenhill, who was a Bachelor of Medicine, Laura Greenhill, two pupils, and three servants. It was described as uninhabited in the 1851 census.
The 1861 census shows No. 91 occupied by the clergyman William B. Lanes (39) and his wife Frances, plus a cook and housemaid.
The surgeon Henry Parr Mallam was here at the time of the 1871 census with his wife Mary Ann and their three children and his sister-in-law Amy Margetson, plus their four servants (a cook, nurse, under-nurse, and page). The situation was similar in 1881, except that his widowed mother-in-law Hannah Margetson now lived with them. He was still here in 1891 as a widower with two sons and three daughters, and in 1901 with just three grown-up daughters, plus four servants.
In about 1908 Oxford’s branch of the Union of London & Smiths Bank opened here. This was taken over by the National Provincial Bank of England in 1918, so that it became the National Provincial and Union Bank of England; this in turn acquired Messrs Coutts & Co. in 1920.
The 1911 census shows the dentist Arthur Chaundy (39) living over the bank premises at No. 91 with his wife Anne and their two servants.
In 1921 No. 91A was occupied by the surgeon dentis Albert Henry Herbert (33) and his wife Lesley.
In the late 1960s the National Provincial and Coutts were taken over by the National Westminster Bank, and for a short time there were three branches of the NatWest on this side of the High: the former District Bank at Nos. 86–87, the former National Provincial here at No. 91, and the main, original National Westminster at Nos. 120–122.
Occupiers of 91 High Street |
|
1795, |
Richard Weston |
1846 | William A. Greenhill, M.D. |
1861 |
The Revd William B. Lanes |
1866–1905 | Henry Parr Mallam, Surgeon / medical officer to the workhouse and certifying fctry. surg. |
1908–1975 | The
Union of London & Smiths Bank Limited National Westminster Bank Ltd (1970–1975) |
1977-1980 | Dixon Gray & Co, Estate Agents |
1993–2005 |
PDC Copyprint / Max Print |
2006–present |
Part of Old Bank Hotel next door |
