Buildings in Nicholas Lane
Buildings in Nicholas Lane
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Record No
48698
Title
Buildings in Nicholas Lane
Description
A view of 33-37 Nicholas Lane, City of London, looking towards Lombard Street. The four-storey nineteenth-century Grade II listed Royal Bank of Scotland at 34-37 Nicholas Lane exhibits elements of the Beau-Arts and Italianate architectural styles. The ground floor consists of large rusticated arched windows split into square panes and surmounted by masked keystones (carved faces). Sash windows can be seen at the top of the building and ornate metal grills cover the basement windows. A business sign for the Royal Bank of Scotland hangs on an ornate iron frame above the entrance. A decorative border consisting of scroll patterns surmounts the ground floor. Two flag poles extend from the building just above the entrance which is a re-modelled entrance with two urns on top possibly dating from the 1930s. The rectangular first floor windows include central Corinthian styled columns and are surmounted by pediments filled with carved foliage. On the right of the picture can be seen the granite clad building dating from the 1960s-1970s, part of which was built on the site of the churchyard of St Nicholas Acon (destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666) which was a public open space until the 1960s. On the left hand side beyond 34-37 Nicholas Lane can be seen T.E. Collcutt's building of 1875 at 33 Nicholas Lane. Further down the street are other office buildlings dating from around the 1920s-1930s. A man can be seen walking down the street and on the right hand side of the road by the entrance to Nicholas Passage is an open backed lorry. Numbers 33-37 have survived with some changes but the majority of other buildings in the street have been replaced by late twentieth-century office buildings.
Date of execution
1973
Section
London Metropolitan Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_019_73_10423
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