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View of entrance doorway.
SC 700937
Description View of entrance doorway.
Date 1901
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 700937
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 16514
Scope and Content Main Entrance, National Bank of Scotland, No 47 St Vincent Street and Nos 131-5 Buchanan Street, Glasgow (now the Post Office) The National Bank of Scotland, a giant Neo-Baroque palazzo which stands on the corner of St Vincent Street and Buchanan Street, was designed in 1898-1900 by the architect, John More Dick Peddie. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the exterior in 1901. The building has rusticated ground and first floors, and a balustraded balcony running under second-floor windows framed by Ionic columns. The main entrance is through a great pedimented arched portal, framed by giant paired Ionic pilasters, and crowned by a massive shield of arms. John More Dick Peddie (1853-1921), an Edinburgh architect whose father established the family firm in 1845, won the competition for a design for the building, beating off stiff competition from the Glasgow architect, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who also submitted a Neo-Baroque design. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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