View of entrance.

Description View of entrance.

Date 1927

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 701332

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 29581/6

Scope and Content Detail of the entrance façade, 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 the ground floor 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 design of the bank represents a development in Miller's style that may have been influenced by Norman Hird, the bank's general manager, who visited the United States in 1923 to study the design of bank buildings in America with a view to the construction of a new head office in Glasgow. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference Box 69

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap