Interior. View of banking hall.
BL 29582
Description Interior. View of banking hall.
Date 1927
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 29582
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Banking Hall, 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 interior in 1927. The banking hall is an elegant top-lit atrium, with walls lined to their full height with marble, and monumental marble Doric columns supporting the superstructure. The tall metal-framed windows rise to ceiling level, and the marble floor is laid in a geometric pattern with contrasting coloured bands. The interior layout was inspired by the planning of bank buildings in New York and Chicago, and was largely suggested by the bank's general manager, Norman Hird, who had travelled extensively in the United States in 1923 while studying American banking systems. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
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