Lion Chambers View from South West, also showing Yorkshire Building Society, Travelcare, Roberta Buchan, Endsleigh and Leeds and Holbeck Building Society

Description Lion Chambers View from South West, also showing Yorkshire Building Society, Travelcare, Roberta Buchan, Endsleigh and Leeds and Holbeck Building Society

Date 13/8/1992

Catalogue Number B 74410 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 710132

Scope and Content Lion Chambers from the south-west, Nos 170-2 Hope Street, Glasgow The Lion Chambers were built 1904-7 to designs by architects James Salmon (1873-1924) and John Gaff Gillespie (1870-1926). The building was only the second reinforced concrete building to be constructed in Glasgow, built by the Yorkshire Hennebique Contracting Company Ltd. The engineer for this ambitious project was T J Gueritte. This shows the Lion Chambers towering above the shops and tenements on either side. The thin concrete walls (only 100mm thick) have prominent gables on two sides and a tower (left) adds interest to the asymmetrical façade with its arrangement of windows of various forms and sculptured busts of judges. This eight-storeyed tower was commissioned by William G Black, a lawyer and lay member of the Glasgow Art Club. In keeping with his interests, the building housed a basement printing works, ground-floor shop, law chambers and artists' studios in the lofty top-floor rooms. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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