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Description: | A yellow stone office block, built in the Renaissance style with giant Corinthian pilasters, pedimented windows and a heavy cornice. The main door in the central bay has a fluted architrave, flanked by large boldly-carved Atlantes, on brackets with much leaf and flower carving, supporting a balcony above.(1) To the left of this is a stone sun set above one of the window. On the Westgate Road facade, a number of small metal sun faces are incorporated into the window guards, and above all of this, in a semi-circular pediment, is a large stylised sun face within a modernistic interpretation of rays. Just beneath this are two emblems of insurance, consisting of a fireman's helmet and the dates (left) 1904, (right) 1710, and a large sunflower. | Subjects: | Sculpture | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Architect: Oliver, Leeson and Wood | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=7542... | Go to resource |
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