Westminster Bank Trumpington Street

Trumpington Street, 10 (11) Bene’t Street, Westminster Bank, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

History of Westminster Bank,Trumpington Street

Listed Building:

1866. Gothic style. By Horace Francis. White brick with stone dressings and good carving. Buttresses. Gothic windows. 3 storeys and basement. Doorway of main entrance set on splay of angle. In prominent position in relation to King’s Parade. Good cast iron area railings on Trumpington Street frontage.

1866

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1871

(10) Sweeling

(11) Thirkell

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1881

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1910

The photo was taken on Honorary Degree Day with the Esquire Bedells, the Vice Chancellor and Theodore Roosevelt en route for Senate House.

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1913

(10) London County and Westminster Bank. Alfred Hyde manager

(11) R Austin, lodging house keeper

Bidwell and Sons, surveyors and land agents

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1918

2nd Lieut. Francis Charlton Lanaway, aged 36, killed in action 21.8.1918. He had been First Cashier at the bank.

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29 May 1961
Westminster Bank opened their first Cambridge branch at the junction of Trumpington Street and Bene’t Street in 1845. It was closely connected with University and College life and the original premises have been enlarged several times. Now a continued expansion in business has seen a handsome new bank in St Andrew’s Street together with the modernisation of the one in Fitzroy Street which opened in 1952 to cater for that active and expanding shopping area. Mike Petty Archive

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1962 (10 Bene’t Street)

Westminster Bank

The former doorway of the bank now houses the Corpus clock. This was installed in 2008.