General view of entrance front to British Linen Bank
SC 465220
Description General view of entrance front to British Linen Bank
Date c. 1900
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 465220
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 14431
Scope and Content Bank of Scotland building, No 38-9, east side of St Andrew Square, Edinburgh The Bank of Scotland building was designed by David Bryce in 1846 for the British Linen Bank to replace its former head office at No 37. The building is in the grandest possible style, and built on a colossal scale. Above the rusticated ground floor with a huge main door and four large lamp standards, six fluted and projecting Corinthian columns rise to the roofline, each supporting a statue. A balustrade runs the width of the building behind the statues. David Bryce (1803-76), architect, worked in all styles but at first chiefly in the Palladian and Italian Renaissance. He was responsible for re-designing the head office of the Bank of Scotland on the Mound in 1864 in an Italianate style. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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