Lloyds Bank

SP2055SW 604-1/8/18 30/06/93

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON BRIDGE STREET (North side) No.22 Lloyds Bank

GV II

Bank. 1899. JA Chatwin of Birmingham. Brick with ashlar facades and slate roof. Classical style. 3 storeys; 5-window range with canted angle. High plinth, string course over ground floor, 1st-floor sill course, frieze and cornice, 2nd-floor sill course and top frieze and dentilled cornice; coped gable with ball finial to kneeler. Elliptical-headed entrance to canted angle to left end has continuous mouldings and consoled key over fanlight and C20 door. Ground floor has window between piers with channelled rustication and attached Doric columns; 1st floor has elliptical-headed windows with moulded transoms and upper mullions; 2nd floor has round-headed windows with archivolts and keys, panelled piers and spandrels, between pilasters with Corinthian-derived capitals; all windows with plate glass horned sashes. Angle has canted oriel with ribbed coving to base, apron with 2 tiers of panels, the upper ones with scrolly reliefs, elliptical-headed 1st-floor windows with strapwork parapet over and recessed 2nd-floor bay with round-headed windows, octagonal drum with strapwork panels and swept tile spire with lead ball finial. Left return to Union Street has similar details, but channelled rustication to ground floor and plain windows with C20 frames and entrance with consoled cornice over 3-panel door to left end; recessed right end with forward break to 1st and 2nd floors, with enriched relief panel to 1st floor carved with central beehive and 6 roundels with armorial bearings including Lloyds, London and other towns. Sited on an important corner. Included for group value. (Information from Stratford-upon-Avon Society).

Listing NGR: SP2018855007