Interior - view of banking hall

Description Interior - view of banking hall

Date 1900

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number BL 16004

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies B 64404, SC 700546

Scope and Content 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 interior in 1900. This Edwardian banking hall is lit by a large central dome, and richly decorated in Baroque style with marble columns and ornate ceiling plasterwork. The long, highly polished wooden banking counter is decorated with ornamental brackets carved with masques. The savings bank movement, founded in 1810 in Ruthwell, Dumfries-shire, by the Reverend Henry Duncan, was a mutual organisation owned by its depositors which did not lend money to businesses or issue bank notes. The Savings Bank of Glasgow was the largest savings bank in the United Kingdom. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 32

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