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Interior. General view of banking hall.
SC 700941
Description Interior. General view of banking hall.
Date 1901
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 700941
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 16517
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 magnificent square banking hall, lit from above by a glazed coffered ceiling and a large central glass dome, is divided into three bays on each side by pairs of marble Ionic columns. Artificial electric light is supplied 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 at a time of the huge expansion of the iron industry, and the building of the railways. In 1864 it became the first Scottish bank to open a branch in London. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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