Interior-general view of entrance foyer

Description Interior-general view of entrance foyer

Date 1903

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

Catalogue Number SC 730050

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 17779

Scope and Content Entrance Hall, Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Company, Nos 27-9 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh The Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Company building was designed in 1897-8 in a Jacobean style on an impressive corner site in Edinburgh's New Town by the architects, John More Dick Peddie & George Washington Browne. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1903. This grand arcaded Renaissance-style entrance hall is lined in contrasting green and veined marbles with the capitals of the pillars flanking the staircase in alabaster. The ceiling has a modillioned cornice, and the first flight of the staircase has marble treads. The floor is laid in contrasting squares of black and white marble. The Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Company, founded in 1831 on the model of the London Equitable, was, in 1903, a steadily growing company with accumulated funds of £4.8 million. It was a Mutual Assurance Company whose profits belonged to the Assured who included 'Heirs of Entail, Clergymen, Professional Men, Men in Trade and Business, and persons who have stated incomes'. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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