National Westminster Bank in the Strand
National Westminster Bank in the Strand
Record No
140359
Title
National Westminster Bank in the Strand
Description
View of National Westminster Bank and Twinings Tea Shop at 216-221 Strand, City of Westminster (south side). A major thoroughfare, the Strand runs east to west from Trafalgar Square to Temple Bar. Named from the Old English 'strond', meaning the edge of a river, as before modern embankments and land reclamation it ran alongside the north bank of the River Thames. Number 217-221 is a three-storey building with attic with a balustraded parapet and triangular pediments above the attic windows on each corner. Arched entrances at either side, with a balustraded balcony in the central section of the first floor, and to the individual windows of the second floor. Corinthian pilasters rise through the second and third floors. A sign above the ground floor for 'National Westminster Bank'. To the right is number 216, an early nineteenth-century Twinings tea merchant's shop front. The portico has a recessed double glazed and panelled door in architrave. The opening is framed by Grecian columns supporting entablature with a raised central die surmounted by lion and flanked by seated Chinamen, with a central Royal Warrant, and the sign 'Twinings'. The entrance is Grade II listed, number 1236754. Thomas Twining became a Freeman of the City of London in 1701 at the age of 26, by virtue of having served an apprenticeship as a weaver. But by that time he had turned his back on weaving and was learning a new trade working for a wealthy merchant and handling some of the early shipments of tea. In 1706 he bought Tom's Coffee House on the Strand and began his famous tea business. By 1717, Thomas had acquired three adjacent houses and converted them to a shop; the building that is now number 216 Strand and which exists today.
Date of execution
1975
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_532_75_8901
London picture map location
Exact
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