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Barclays Headquarters & offices · London, United Kingdom
Barclays · London, United Kingdom
A 1 million sq ft Canary Wharf tower with five six-storey glass atria stacked up its south face — and, from 2026, 16 weeks of full-pay leave for new fathers in the UK.
The tower, the parental leave and 335 years of head offices — from a goldsmith's shop on Lombard Street to Canary Wharf — then the pay. Every number from Barclays' own annual report, archives and careers site.
- 1M sq ftOne Churchill Place, HQ since 2005
- 5,000staff moved in from 14 London buildings
- 16 weeksfull-pay paternity leave (UK, from 2026)
- £60,603median UK employee total pay, 2025
Sources: Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F · Barclays press release, 30 June 2026 · Barclays Group Archives · search.jobs.barclays/benefits
Companies / United Kingdom / Banking / Barclays
THE HEADQUARTERS · ONE CHURCHILL PLACE · 2005
Five six-storey glass atria stacked up the south face
HOK pushed the service cores to the north side so that a bank of five atria, each six storeys high, could rise up the south facade. Each atrium has its own visual theme, with planting and commissioned artwork, and serves as space for meetings or a break. Barclays' archive describes open steel-framed floors meant to get people talking, glass that brings daylight deep inside, a gym, a multi-faith prayer room and a roof garden.
- 1 million sq ft (≈ 92,900 m²)
- 5 atria, 6 storeys each
- 365-seat restaurant
- Health and fitness center
- BREEAM Excellent
- Design: HOK
One Churchill Place from the outside
Designed by HOK, the headquarters has five atria, each six storeys high, stacked up the south facade.
Canary Wharf around the tower
The tower has about 1 million sq ft of space and a BREEAM Excellent rating.
Night views
Barclays' archive describes glass that brings daylight deep inside the building.
Facts: HOK project page “Barclays World Headquarters” · Barclays Group Archives, “Head office”. Photos are added later with credit to the architect or Wikimedia Commons photographer.
One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf
| Building | Address |
|---|---|
| One Churchill Place (global HQ, registered office) | 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HP, United Kingdom |
Source: Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F (registered office) · See them on the map ↓
Source: HOK project page · Barclays Group Archives, “Head office” · Barclays press release, 30 June 2026
Benefits (United Kingdom)
52 weeks' leave: 26 weeks at full pay, then 13 weeks of statutory pay.
16 weeks at full pay, up from two weeks, effective 1 January 2026.
52 weeks' leave: 26 weeks at full pay, then 13 weeks of statutory pay.
Up to five days' paid leave.
Up to five days' paid leave; up to two weeks for parents and carers who lose a child.
Granted to each colleague in early 2026, after an award worth about £500 in 2025.
Access to Barclays Premier Banking products, services and benefits since July 2025.
Practical help, counselling and support for colleagues and their families; the UK Employee Assistance Programme also covers family members.
Source: search.jobs.barclays/benefits (UK maternity/paternity cover, Health and wellbeing) · Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F (Rewarding our colleagues)
Why people stay: what Barclays itself reports
Measured in the Your View survey from advocacy, motivation and sense of accomplishment (2024: 85%).
A share award worth about £500 in February 2025, and 110 Barclays shares each in early 2026.
All-employee share plans run in countries covering 99% of the global workforce.
Favourable score in the Autumn 2025 Your View survey; 53,000+ colleagues use the Be Well portal.
1,595 graduates, 1,508 interns and 213 apprentices hired globally.
One entry point for all learning, plus support for degrees and professional qualifications and five global colleague networks.
Source: Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F (People, Remuneration report) · search.jobs.barclays/benefits
Who works here
colleagues by headcount, end of 2025
senior managers are women
Barclays PLC board members are women
took part in the 2025 Your View survey
Source: Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F (segment tables, Companies Act diversity disclosure, People). Other = UK Corporate Bank, Private Bank & Wealth Management and US Consumer Bank.
Pay at Barclays
Salary, allowances, the 2025 bonus and estimated pension and benefits, full-time equivalent. The Group Chief Executive's pay was 248 times this.
Source: Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F, Remuneration report (Group Chief Executive pay ratio)
Office history: 315 years on Lombard Street, then Canary Wharf
- 1690 A goldsmith's shop on Lombard Street
John Freame and Thomas Gould, two Quaker goldsmith bankers, start trading in Lombard Street in the City of London — the business Barclays traces itself back to.
Source: home.barclays, Our history · Barclays Group Archives, “Lombard Street”
Lombard Street, City of London, 2017 · Graeme.duckworth / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1728 The sign of the Black Spread Eagle — later 54 Lombard Street
The partners move to the sign of the Black Spread Eagle, later numbered 54 Lombard Street. The eagle became the bank's coat of arms in 1937; the Barclay name joined the business in 1736.
Source: Barclays Group Archives, “Lombard Street”
54 Lombard Street, City of London · Josep Renalias / CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 1912–1920 The head office takes over 42–58 Lombard Street
Barclays buys neighbouring numbers in 1912, 1914, 1919 and 1920; by 1920 the head office site covers 42–58 Lombard Street.
Source: Barclays Group Archives, “Lombard Street” and “Head office”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1959–1969 A new 400,000 sq ft head office in Portland stone
After a church on the site was bought and the war delayed work, the foundation stone is laid in January 1959. The building, by Sir Herbert Baker and Scott, covers nearly an acre and is completed in 1969.
Source: Barclays Group Archives, “Lombard Street”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 1994 Rebuilt again on Lombard Street
The 1960s building, liked by staff but too low in density, is demolished from 1990. Head office departments return to the new Lombard Street building in 1994.
Source: Barclays Group Archives, “Head office”
54 Lombard Street, City of London, 2014 · mattbuck (category) / CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons - 2005 One Churchill Place, Canary Wharf
Announced in 2001. From January 2005, 14 London buildings close and 5,000 staff move into a purpose-built 1 million sq ft tower. The registered office moves from 54 Lombard Street on 31 May 2005.
Source: Barclays Group Archives, “Head office” and “Lombard Street”
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it. - 2026 Barclays buys its headquarters
Barclays acquires a 999-year leasehold interest in One Churchill Place from CWG, valued at £750 million, securing the building beyond its lease, which ran to 2039.
Source: Barclays press release, 30 June 2026
No free-to-use photo found yet.Have one? We’d love to add it.
Map: how the headquarters moved
For 315 years the head office stayed on one City street, Lombard Street, growing from a single shop to numbers 42–58. In 2005 it moved about 5 km east to Canary Wharf.
- 1 · 1690Lombard Street, City of London — John Freame and Thomas Gould trade as goldsmith bankers
- 2 · 172854 Lombard Street — Sign of the Black Spread Eagle; head office until 2005, rebuilt in 1969 and 1994
- 3 · 20051 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf — Global headquarters and registered office; bought on a 999-year leasehold in 2026
Addresses: Barclays Group Archives · Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F
What Barclays does
Barclays traces its business to two goldsmith bankers on Lombard Street in 1690. Today it describes itself as a diversified bank with UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking businesses, a leading investment bank and a specialist US consumer bank.
Five operating divisions: Barclays UK, Barclays UK Corporate Bank, Barclays Private Bank & Wealth Management, Barclays Investment Bank and Barclays US Consumer Bank, plus Head Office.
Where the money came from · Total income by division, 2025
Source: Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F (segment analysis; Head Office excluded)
Source: Barclays PLC Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F · per-employee figure calculated by eciffo
Growth: revenue vs. people
£21.1B → £29.1B
80,800 → 93,000
Calendar years. Total income in £ billions: five-year summaries in the Annual Reports on Form 20-F for 2021 and 2025. Employees: full-time equivalent at year end, same reports (2018 and 2022 not in these reports). Multiples calculated by eciffo.
Chief executives
Group Chief Executive. Joined Barclays in 2016 as Group Chief Risk Officer, then Head of Global Markets; earlier at JPMorgan Chase from 1994.
Group Chief Executive before Venkatakrishnan; stepped down in 2021.
Barclays traces its ancestry to John Freame and Thomas Gould (1690); James Barclay became a partner in 1736.
Source: home.barclays leadership page · Our history · Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F (Remuneration report)
Barclays: questions people ask
Where is Barclays' headquarters?
At 1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HP. It has been Barclays' global headquarters and registered office since 2005.
Source: Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F · Barclays Group Archives
Who designed One Churchill Place?
HOK. Barclays' archive names Larry Malcic for the exterior brief and Jack Pringle for the interior floor space.
Source: HOK project page · Barclays Group Archives, “Head office”
How big is Barclays' headquarters?
About 1 million sq ft (≈ 92,900 m²) of workspace. HOK lists 30 storeys; Barclays' archive says 33 floors, built in 30 months.
Source: HOK project page · Barclays press release, 30 June 2026 · Barclays Group Archives
What is inside One Churchill Place?
Five six-storey atria on the south side with planting and commissioned art, one of Canary Wharf's largest lobbies, a health and fitness center, a 365-seat restaurant, training facilities, a multi-faith prayer room and a roof garden.
Source: HOK project page · Barclays Group Archives, “Head office”
Does Barclays own its headquarters?
Yes, since June 2026 Barclays holds a 999-year leasehold interest in One Churchill Place, bought from CWG and valued at £750 million. Before that it leased the building, with a lease running to 2039.
Source: Barclays press release, 30 June 2026
Where was Barclays' head office before Canary Wharf?
On Lombard Street in the City of London, from 1690 until 2005 — at the sign of the Black Spread Eagle, later 54 Lombard Street, from 1728.
Source: Barclays Group Archives, “Lombard Street”
How many people work at Barclays?
About 93,000 full-time equivalent employees at the end of 2025, or 98,141 colleagues by headcount.
Source: Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F
What parental leave does Barclays offer in the UK?
Primary caregivers get 52 weeks of leave with 26 weeks at full pay. From 1 January 2026, non-primary caregivers get 16 weeks at full pay, up from two weeks.
Source: search.jobs.barclays/benefits · Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F
Does Barclays offer flexible or hybrid working?
Barclays says it has embedded flexible working, and its annual report describes operating under a hybrid working model.
Source: search.jobs.barclays/benefits · Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F
How much does the median Barclays employee earn?
The median UK employee's total pay was £60,603 in 2025 (fixed pay £48,629). The Group Chief Executive's pay was 248 times that.
Source: Annual Report 2025 on Form 20-F, Remuneration report
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