Spread Eagle

Dodging the trams in the centre of Croydon today on my way to a meeting lead me to pass a bar which must have been a Barclays Bank.  Well I thought so by its name.  
It was the Spread Eagle.  What a wonderful gold/gilt eagle there was above the entrance. 
 It was not the traditional Barclays sign so maybe it was unrelated........

A bit of research once home showed that the branch of the Union Bank of London and was built in built in 1893.