View of entrance.
BL 29581/4
Description View of entrance.
Date 1927
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 29581/4
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Main Entrance, Union Bank of Scotland, Nos 110-20 St Vincent Street, Glasgow (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. The building has a raised ground floor and basement, and a colonnade of giant Greek Ionic fluted columns that rise from ground-floor level through two floors. Between the columns, set-back metal-framed windows light the banking hall, and a metal frieze defines the boundary between the ground and first floors. The bank's design was derived from the Guaranty Trust Building in New York, and possibly inspired by a tour of America in 1923 by Norman Hird, the bank's general manager. Hird visited New York and Chicago to study the design of bank buildings with a view to the construction of the new Glasgow head office. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 69
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