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 701336

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 29584

Scope and Content Foyer, 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. This long, narrow hall is lined on one side by offices screened by glazed wooden partitions, and by marble Doric columns supporting the superstructure of the top-lit banking hall on the other. The marble floor, laid in an elongated geometric pattern, leads to a stairwell with a built-in electric elevator. The foyer is laid out very much in the style of an American bank building, a design inspired by a visit made to New York and Chicago by the bank's general manager, Norman Hird, in 1923. Hird visited the United States to study bank buildings with a view to the construction of the new head office in Glasgow. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference box 69

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