Interior. View of banking hall.
BL 29586
Description Interior. View of banking hall.
Date 1927
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 29586
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Entrance 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 entrance hall has a marble floor laid in geometric patterns of contrasting coloured bands, and large, metal-framed windows that rise to ceiling height. The doorcase has a simple consoled cornice, and long glass panels that emphasise the building's Classical form. The Classical style of the bank's interior was influenced by the Guaranty Trust Building in New York, designed by York & Sawyer in 1913, and one of the great icons to capitalism at that time. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 69
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