General view. Vintage retouched copy ( figures added etc ) taken from BL 29581/1A.

Description General view. Vintage retouched copy ( figures added etc ) taken from BL 29581/1A.

Date 1927

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

Catalogue Number BL 29581/1A

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies B 64862, SC 701327

Scope and Content Union Bank of Scotland, Nos 110-20 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, from St Vincent Street (now the Bank of Scotland) The Union Bank of Scotland, an American Classical-style building which stands on the corner of St Vincent Street and Renfield Street, was designed in 1925-7 by the Glasgow architect, James Miller. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the exterior in 1927. This massive, seven-storeyed building has nine bays to St Vincent Street and six to Renfield Street. The St Vincent Street façade is dominated by huge fluted Ionic columns that take up the first two floors, dwarfing the pedestrians on the pavement. The front to Renfield Street has giant pilasters (rectangular pillars projecting slightly from the wall) instead of columns. The building not only provided bank accommodation, but also lettable office space on the upper floors and shops on the Renfield Street front. The bank accommodation comprised a basement containing the strong rooms, a ground-floor banking hall, and rooms for bank officials on the first and second floors. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 69

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