Lloyds Bank

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW EASTGATE STREET 844-1/8/107 (North side) No.19 Lloyds Bank

GV II

Bank. 1898, by FW Waller and Son. Red brick with granite ashlar and terracotta details, tiled roof. Northern Renaissance style. EXTERIOR: three storeys, cellar and attic. Symmetrical front of five bays with a slight projection to each end bay; a large gable above the three central bays is flanked by a smaller gable above each end bay. Ground floor rusticated in rock-faced courses capped by a moulded band at first-floor level, a large arched opening in each bay, the arches with tilted and panelled keystones except in the crown of the arch in the central bay which has a rock-faced corbel incorporating a keystone which supports a canted bay window in stone on the upper floors; on the first floor an ashlar apron with raised panels below the windows; at the angles of the projecting end bays above the apron raised stone quoins rise to the stone crowning entablature with dentil cornice at attic-floor level; a false parapet above the cornice supports the attic gables. On the ground floor C20 metal framed doorways with plain fanlights in each of the end bays and metal framed windows in the three central bays; on the first floor a cross mullion and transom window with casements in the front of the canted bay with transom lights to the sides; in the bays to either side cross mullion and transom windows with casements in architrave frames with entablatures crowned by segmental pediments on the projecting bays and triangular pediments on the inner bays; on the second floor similar fenestration, except that windows in the inner bays are single lights with transoms, all with moulded stone sills on brackets; in the central gable a three-light mullion and transom window in an architrave frame with entablature crowned by a swan-neck pediment and above, in the apex of the gable, an oculus under a hoodmould; window and oculus are flanked by polygonal shafts capped with spike finials; another capped finial above the apex of the gable. INTERIOR: not inspected. A fine example of a provincial architect's work in this style, forming a group with Gribble's bank at No.21 (qv).

Listing NGR: SO8323318514