Interior-general view of Banking Hall.
SC 465222
Description Interior-general view of Banking Hall.
Date c. 1890
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 465222
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 14434
Scope and Content Banking hall, 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. The banking hall, 22.7m long, has polished Peterhead granite columns with gilt capitals, and a huge central dome of engraved glass. An elaborate plaster frieze, bearing the busts of eminent Scotsmen, runs all around the room. The British Linen Company, founded in 1747 to encourage the growth and manufacture of fine linens, quickly became involved in credit operations, and by 1774 became the British Linen Company Bank, issuing its own banknotes. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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