Interior. General view of banking hall.

Description Interior. General view of banking hall.

Date 1901

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

Catalogue Number SC 700942

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 16518

Scope and Content Entrance to the 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. The entrance to the banking hall is through a Neo-Baroque doorway with an elaborate pediment and elegant fanlight. The hall, with a glazed coffered ceiling, is lined with pairs of freckled green marble Ionic columns, and lit by elaborate 'electroliers', one of the new technologies of the time. The National Bank of Scotland was established as a co-partnership in Edinburgh in 1825, and, with an authorised capital of £5 million, attracted more shareholders than any other bank in Britain. It opened its first office in Glasgow in 1843, and in 1882 registered as a limited liability company. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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