Interior - view of banking hall
BL 16004
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
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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