Interior - view of banking hall.

Description Interior - view of banking hall.

Date 1901

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

Catalogue Number SC 700940

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 16516

Scope and Content Banking Hall, 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 interior in 1901. This impressive square banking hall has a glazed coffered ceiling with a large central glass dome. The walls are divided into three bays by pairs of freckled green marble Ionic columns with swag capitals, and the hall is lit by four elegant 'electroliers'. The National Bank of Scotland, established as a co-partnership in Edinburgh in 1825, opened its first office in Glasgow in 1843. From 1881 until the outbreak of World War I, in terms of liabilities, deposits and advances, the National Bank was, in Scotland, second only to the Bank of Scotland. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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