Lion Chambers View from South West, also showing Yorkshire Building Society, Travelcare, Roberta Buchan, Endsleigh and Leeds and Holbeck Building Society. Digital image of B 74410 CN.

Description Lion Chambers View from South West, also showing Yorkshire Building Society, Travelcare, Roberta Buchan, Endsleigh and Leeds and Holbeck Building Society. Digital image of B 74410 CN.

Date 13/8/1992

Catalogue Number SC 710132

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 74410 CN

Scope and Content Lion Chambers from the south-west, Nos 170-2 Hope Street, Glasgow The Lion Chambers were built 1904-7 to designs by architects James Salmon (1873-1924) and John Gaff Gillespie (1870-1926). The building was only the second reinforced concrete building to be constructed in Glasgow, built by the Yorkshire Hennebique Contracting Company Ltd. The engineer for this ambitious project was T J Gueritte. This shows the Lion Chambers towering above the shops and tenements on either side. The thin concrete walls (only 100mm thick) have prominent gables on two sides and a tower (left) adds interest to the asymmetrical façade with its arrangement of windows of various forms and sculptured busts of judges. This eight-storeyed tower was commissioned by William G Black, a lawyer and lay member of the Glasgow Art Club. In keeping with his interests, the building housed a basement printing works, ground-floor shop, law chambers and artists' studios in the lofty top-floor rooms. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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