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     As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 23, 1996
                                                       Registration No. 33-96248
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                         SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                               WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549

                        POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO.  1 TO THE
                                      FORM S-1
                                REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                           UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

                                 LENOX BANCORP, INC.
  (EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION)

  
       OHIO                           6035                     31-1445959
(state or other juris-           (Primary Standard            (IRS Employer
diction of incorpora-              Classification           Identification No.)
tion or organziation                 Code Number

  
                                  5255 BEECH STREET
                              ST. BERNARD, OHIO 45217
                                   (513) 242-6900
               (Address, including zip code, and telephone number,
        including area code, of registrant's principal executive offices)

                                VIRGINIA M. POROWSKI
                        PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
                                 LENOX SAVINGS BANK
                                 5255 BEECH STREET
                              ST. BERNARD, OHIO  45217
                                   (513) 242-6900
              (Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
                     including area code, of agent for service)

                                     Copies to:
                             LORI M. BERESFORD, ESQUIRE
                              GEOFFREY W. RYAN, ESQUIRE
                             MULDOON, MURPHY & FAUCETTE
                             5101 WISCONSIN AVENUE, N.W.
                               WASHINGTON, D.C. 20016
                                   (202) 362-0840






         SALE TO THE PUBLIC CONCLUDED JULY 17, 1996


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      This Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 is filed for the purpose of
deregistering 235,823 shares of the without par value Common Stock (the "Common
Stock") of Lenox Bancorp, Inc. (the "Company") heretofore registered and offered
pursuant to the terms of the Prospectus dated May 13, 1996 (the "Prospectus").
The remaining 425,677 shares registered pursuant to this Registration Statement
on Form S-1 have been issued and sold in accordance with the Prospectus in the
Subscription Offering and Community Offering described therein.

      The Company has determined that no further shares will be offered, sold
and issued pursuant to the Prospectus. The Company therefore requests
deregistration of the unissued shares of Common Stock registered pursuant to
this Registration Statement as soon as is practicable after the filing of the
Post-effective Amendment No. 1.





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                                  SIGNATURES

      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the Registrant
has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of St.
Bernard, State of Ohio, on August 23, 1996.

LENOX BANCORP, INC.


By:   /s/ Virginia M. Porowski
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      Virginia M. Porowski
      President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

      Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this
Registration Statement has been signed by the following persons in the
capacities and on the dates indicated.

       Name                             Title                        Date

/s/ Virginia M. Porowski       President, Chief Executive       August 23, 1996
- ---------------------------    Officer and Director
Virginia M. Porowski           (principal executive officer)

/s/ William T. Bird            Treasurer and Chief Financial    August 23, 1996
- ---------------------------    Officer
William T. Bird


            *                  Vice President and Chief 
- ---------------------------    Operating Officer
Diane P. Irwin


            *                  Chair of the Board
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Richard O. Plunk


            *                  Vice Chair of the Board
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Wyvette D. Jordan


            *                  Director
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Gail R. Behymer


            *                  Director and Secretary
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Richard C. Harmeyer


            *                  Director
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Robert R. Keller






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            *                  Director and Assistant Secretary
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William P. Riekert, Jr.


            *                  Director
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Henry E. Brown


            *                  Director
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Curtis L. Jackson


            *                  Director
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Reba St. Clair


    *Pursuant to a Power of Attorney dated August 25, 1995 and filed as Exhibit
24.1 with the Commission on August 28, 1995.



      /s/ Virginia M. Porowski                 August 23, 1996
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      Virginia M. Porowski