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/A

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies B 64405, SC 700547

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. The banking hall, designed in a Baroque style, is lit by a large central dome, and decorated with marble columns and ornate ceiling plasterwork. The long wooden banking counter, decorated with ornamental brackets carved with masques, stretches between wrought-iron gates set within marble surrounds. The Savings Bank of Glasgow, the largest savings bank in the United Kingdom, was a mutual organisation owned by its depositors. It was non-commercial, did not lend money to businesses or issue bank notes, and invested most of its deposits with the Commissioners for the National Debt. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 32

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