Interior. View of banking hall.

Description Interior. View of banking hall.

Date 1927

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

Catalogue Number SC 701335

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 29583

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, a top-lit atrium, has monumental marble Doric columns supporting the superstructure, and a marble floor laid in a geometric pattern with contrasting coloured bands. A memorial tablet set into the wall (left of centre) bears the names of 84 members of staff who died in World War I. The Classical interior design of the bank, inspired by York & Sawyer's Guaranty Trust Building in New York, was largely planned by the general manager, Norman Hird. Hird had studied the design and layout of American bank buildings when on a fact-finding trip to New York and Chicago in 1923. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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