Interior. View of banking hall.
BL 29587
Description Interior. View of banking hall.
Date 1927
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 29587
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Interior of the Ground Floor, 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 interior has walls lined to ceiling height with marble, and a marble floor laid in geometric patterns of contrasting coloured bands. The long, narrow hall (left) leads to a stairwell at each end, and the main business of the bank was carried out in the banking hall (right), a top-lit atrium lined with marble Doric columns. The Classical style of the interior of the bank was inspired by the Guaranty Trust Building in New York, one of the great icons to capitalism at that time. The bank's general manager, Norman Hird, studied the design and layout of several American bank buildings when he visited New York in 1923. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
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