Lloyd'S Bank

LINCOLN

SK9771SW HIGH STREET 1941-1/11/151 (West side) 08/07/91 No.202 Lloyd's Bank

GV II

Bank. c1900. By William Mortimer & Son for the Capital & Counties Bank. Ashlar with lead roofs. Baroque Revival style. EXTERIOR: rusticated ground floor and quoins, modillion eaves and cornice, blind balustraded parapet. Windows are mainly plain casements, those to the first floor with cornices. 3 storeys plus attics; 3 x 5 bays. Rounded north-east corner has a moulded doorcase with hood and crest, and above it, a single window on each floor. Square corner tower has cornice and balustrade, and a round headed window with an Ionic surround. High street front has 3 round headed windows with keystones and above, 3 windows on each floor. Attic has 2 windows with modillion hoods carried on single shafts. Below each of them, a crest on brackets. North front has 4 round headed windows, and a door to their right. Above, 3 windows flanked by single round headed recesses, containing single windows in Ionic surrounds with pediments. Above again, 3 windows. Attic has 3 dormers with gabled and segmental pediments, flanked by single pedimented gables, each with an oval window with keystone. INTERIOR not inspected. This building has also been attributed to HG Gamble. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 524; Who's Who in Architecture 1926).

Listing NGR: SK9748671092