Detail of entrance doorway
BL 16003
Description Detail of entrance doorway
Date 1900
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 16003
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Main entrance to the Banking Hall, Savings Bank of Glasgow, No 177 Ingram Street and No 99 Glassford Street, Glasgow (latterly the Trustees Savings Bank) The Savings Bank of Glasgow, designed in 1866 by the architect, John Burnet, was extended between 1894 and 1900 by his son, Sir John James Burnet, who added a magnificent domed banking hall. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, photographed the building in 1900. This columned entrance has a cartouche carved with the crest of the city of Glasgow above the door. A huge open pediment, borne on crouching figures representing Atlantis, is broken by a diminutive pediment with twisted columns flanking the figure of St Mungo, patron saint of the city, by Sir George Frampton. The composition of the main entrance, modelled from a doorway in St Mary's, Oxford, is rich in sculpture designed by Frampton (1860-1928), one of the most distinguished of the late Victorian sculptors. He is probably best known for his famous statue of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, London. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 32
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