page_title: William Mortimer (architect)
section_title: Commercial Buildings and Banks
hierarchical_section_title: William Mortimer (architect) / Architectural Work / Work of William Mortime and W. Mortimer and Son / Commercial Buildings and Banks
caption_attribution_description: English: Entrance to the Lloyds Bank Lincoln
context_page_description: William Mortimer was an architect working in Lincoln from around 1858. He also played for the Lincolnshire County Cricket team.
context_section_description: 1889. 65 Canwick Road, Lincoln. The offices of Fambrini & Daniels, artificial stone and terracotta manufacturers. A two-storied building of red brick, with many decorative features in brick and terracotta, including the city crest and an 1889 date-stone on the north elevation. The building was listed Grade II in 1999.
  1897. Lincoln Co-operative Store, Union Street, Market Rasen. Free Renaissance detailing with plenty of stonework. Original shop fronts” according to Pevsner.
  1897. The Oddfellows Hall, Unity Square, Lincoln. Sited on the corner with Broadgate. The decorative entrance frontage is on Broadgate and the building stretches back forming  most of the north side of Unity Square. It is three storeys high and 22 bays in length. The Broadgate side was the original Oddfellows Hall which later became the Ruston Social Club. The extension  facing Uniity Square has a central arcaded section with two slightly projecting wings, and appears to have been used as office accommodation, part of which was occupied by William Mortimer's office. Pevsner describes the building as “orange brick with exuberant stone detail”. It is in a Free Renaissance style similar to the Market Rasen Co-operative Building. Planning permission was granted in 2015 for its conversion into student accommodation, the property has now been purchased by, coincidently, Essex born couple Mr Thomas W J Mann and his wife Veronica J Mann, the building is being refurbished to accommodate students attending Lincoln University, the works are scheduled for 2018 with a completion date of September 2018.
  25-29 Corporation Street, Lincoln.1898-9.  Designed by Mortimer & Son Brick with artificial stone dressing. Three storeys. Two gabled bays with shaped gables and arched second floor windows with four bays between. Three bays on Hungate frontage with two arched doorways with decorative polychrome surrounds.  Below the arched windows on the gables are artificial stone panels (possibly by Fambrini & Daniels) decorated with putti and draped
  1899. St Hugh's Chambers, Corporation Street, Lincoln. Originally the offices of the solicitors A Trotter and A Brook. One of the few buildings in Lincolnshire with Art Nouveau decoration. Corporation Street was a new road opened up to link High Street and Hungate in the late C19. Three storey elevation, red brick with Welsh slate roof, with half timber gabled bays, pargeting and ornamental stonework. The street frontage is symmetrical with a central entrance with a stone door case formed by flanking pilasters supporting an ornamented stone pediment with a central shield embossed with ‘’St Hughes Chambers 1899’’ flanked by pedestals bearing rampant lions.  Over  the entrance at first floor level is a projecting canopied  gothic style statue plinth with a projecting domed stone canopy above.  At the centre, at second floor level, there is an oculus window. On either side of the window is  wings is a pair of back to back griffins formed in relief by pargeting. The two bay windows are also have  paired griffins. The building was listed Grade II in 2007.
  Lloyd’s Bank, High Street/ St Benedicts Square. 1901-3. Stone facade. The building originally had a cupola,  Described in Pevsner as ‘‘Dehydrated Georgian Baroque’’- it is actually quite good and more Classical than normal Edwardian Baroque Revival architecture.
caption: Lloyds Bank, Lincoln
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