Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26482947

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