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Lloyds Bank, Sidney Street, Cambridge

Lloyds Bank, Sidney Street, Cambridge

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Lloyds Bank, Sidney Street, Cambridge

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Location: Cambridgeshire, East Of England, England, United Kingdom

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Bumble-Bee

July 22, 2019

Bank. 1891 by A and P Waterhouse for Foster and Co bankers;
extended in 1935 by Munro Cautley and Barefoot of Ipswich.
Limestone ashlar with bands of red brick with tile roof;
limestone ashlar extension with stone tile roof. Plan: Situated
on large corner site with 1935 extension on apex of corner at
south end. Dutch Renaissance style with neo-Tudor 1935 extension.
Exterior: 3 storeys and attics. Symmetrical 1:2:1 bay Sidney
Street elevation, the end bays break forward with elaborate Dutch
gables with pilasters pinnacles stone balcony to second floor
windows and consoles to scrolled pediments of attic windows;
similar pediments to centre first floor windows; pairs of round
arch ground floor windows; to right (S) round arch doorway with
Jacobean Ionic column, scrolled broken pediment and niche above
with putto, above which is tall, elaborate hexagonal clock tower
with lantern over and tiled spire with lead lucarnes and little
lantern at apex. The east side facing Hobson Street has a fine
and complex elevation pilastered and gabled in ashlar with red
brick bands. The 1935 south corner extension is relatively plain,
gabled to left and right of larger corner gable which has 2-
storey oriel on lst and 2nd floors; stone mullion-transom windows
with leaded panes.
Interior: 1891 part has very fine tiled interior with an
Italianate octagonal banking hall; the arcade supporting a great
dome with a glazed lantern above; the whole, except for the
lantern, faced in moulded glazed tiles (probably by Burmantofts)
with classical motifs. Original joinery includes curved counters
with panelled fronts in arcade, doors and doorcases, a Gothic
clock; tessellated floors.

(britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101331920-lloyds-bank-cambridge)

Edvard

September 13, 2018

Our Sidney Street, Cambridge is fine example of neo-gothic architecture. The current premises opened in 1894.

They were designed by Alfred Waterhouse, who is best-known for the Natural History Museum in London. He also designed Manchester Town Hall and Strangeways Prison.

The branch had first opened 90 years earlier in 1804 in Bridge Street, as the private bank of Foster & Company. It later moved to new premises in Trinity Street, a 16th century building that had once been a pub called 'The Turk's Head'. As an extra security precaution, three junior members of staff lived on-site. Each night, one of them slept in the strongroom with only a rusty sword for protection.

Cambridge branch, 1928
Foster & Co. was taken over by Capital & Counties in 1904, which was, in turn, taken over by Lloyds in 1918.

lloydsbankinggroup.com/Our-Group/our-heritage/2015-our-milestone-year/250-years-of-lloyds-bank/branch-stories/cambridge

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Location: Cambridgeshire, East Of England, England, United Kingdom

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Lloyds Bank, Sidney Street, Cambridge

1. Emmanuel College, Cambridge – Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge loop from Petersfield

2. Corpus Clock – Trinity College Chapel loop from Cambridge

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