Lloyds Black Horse Emblem
at Fountain Square, Hanley
 

Location: On the left and right upper façade of Lloyds TSB building, Fountain Square
Unveiling: c.1930's
Commissioned by: Lloyds Bank
 

 

Lloyds TSB building, Fountain Square

 

the Lloyds emblem of the rearing black horse

 

Description: Two identical roundels depicting the Lloyds emblem of the rearing black horse with the date 1677.   Background: Charles Lloyd, from Wales, set up a banking business in Birmingham in 1677, which became the private bank of Taylors and Lloyds in 1765, changing its name to Lloyds and Company in 1853. It adopted a London goldsmith's sign of a black horse as its symbol in 1884.

 

Materials:

Part of work	Material	Dimensions
Roundals	Plaster? painted black	each 60cm diameter (approx)