General view from S.
BL 29581/2
Description General view from S.
Date 1927
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 29581/2
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
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, the head office of the bank in Glasgow, was designed in 1925-7 in an American Classical style 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 a raised ground floor, and a façade dominated by a colonnade of giant Greek Ionic fluted columns. Giant pilasters run between the fourth and sixth floors, with metal-framed glazing between the pilasters, and metal bands between the floors. The St Vincent Street office was the headquarters of the Union Bank in Glasgow, and its main centre in the West of Scotland. It sought, not only to impress with a design derived from York & Sawyer's Guaranty Trust Building in New York, but also to eclipse the head office of the bank in Edinburgh. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 69
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