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Architecture Notes

Event ID 800789

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/800789

ARCHITECT: Campbell Douglas & Sellars 1878

David Hamilton's columns and statuary on principal facade originally formed part of the portico of Union Bank, 191 Ingram Street.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Her Majesty's Theatre from 1878. The Royal Princess's Theatre until 1945. Seating capacity 1,000. Glasgow Citizens' Theatre company founded 1943, performing in the Athenaeum Theatre, Buchanan Street until 1945 (see NS56NE 230). Columns and statues removed from facade 1976. New glazed front, entrance atrium and foyer by Building Design Partnership 1990.

G D Byatt 1956; B Edwards 1990.

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