Lloyds Bank, Victorian bank building on Corn Street, Bristol, England
Lloyds Bank is a four-story stone structure with an ornately decorated facade at numbers 53 and 55 Corn Street in Bristol. The building displays intricate friezes, life-size carved figures, and Corinthian columns arranged across its exterior.
The building was constructed between 1854 and 1858 as the West of England and South Wales Bank, serving the region as a financial hub. However, the original institution collapsed financially just two decades after it first opened its doors.
The building displays carved statues on its lower level showing justice, integrity, education, charity, peace, and commerce, paired with cherubs that illustrate different banking operations. These figures reflect the values that financial institutions wanted to project to the public.
The building sits on a prominent corner of Corn Street in the city center and is easily accessible on foot from nearby areas. Today it operates as a luxury boutique hotel with spa facilities, offering public dining and services for overnight guests.
The building draws its architectural design from Saint Mark's Library in Venice, incorporating carved regional crests from Newport, Bath, Bristol, Exeter, and Cardiff across its facade. These heraldic symbols represent the bank's business connections across southern and western England.
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