General view of entrance facade

Description General view of entrance facade

Date 1900

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

Catalogue Number SC 717216

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 16015

Scope and Content Waterloo Chambers, Nos 15-23 Waterloo Street, Glasgow Waterloo Chambers, an imposing Classical-style red sandstone commercial building that dwarfs its plainer neighbours, was designed by the architect, Sir John James Burnet, and built c.1899. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the building in 1900. This symmetrical, seven-bayed building has its ground floor altered for shop accommodation. The central entrance bay, with a wrought-iron grille, has a broken pedimented bay window above. The outer bays have a second-floor corbelled balcony and a balustraded balcony at fifth-floor level. The centre bays have coupled Ionic columns carrying a sixth-floor balcony and eaves gallery. Waterloo Chambers, although larger and weightier and with more conventional symmetry, strongly resembles Burnet's contemporary Atlantic Chambers just around the corner in Hope Street. Burnet would have made the building two storeys higher had the fire authorities not demanded a reduction in height. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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