COLEHERNE COURT IS a large block of flats located on the corner of Old Brompton Road and Redcliffe Gardens. The late Princess Diana lived there before she married Prince Charles. At the corner of the building there is an entrance surmounted by a carving of a bird with two heads each on a long neck.

A map surveyed in 1916 indicates that there was a bank at this corner, The two headed bird was probably above its entrance. The only British bank I know of that uses the double-headed eagle as its symbol is Hoare’s Bank. There may have been others, but I do not know about them.

If anybody knows any more about the double-headed bird on the corner of Coleherne Court, do please let me know.