Glasgow, 75-95 Union Street, Central Station, Caledonian Chambers
Commercial Premises (20th Century), Shop(S) (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, 75-95 Union Street, Central Station, Caledonian Chambers
Classification Commercial Premises (20th Century), Shop(S) (20th Century)
Canmore ID 103556
Site Number NS56NE 77.02
NGR NS 58812 65265
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/103556
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS56NE 77.02 58812 65265
Next a dramatic jump in scale to James Miller's Caledonian Chambers (nos. 75-95 Union St.), a vast office block of dead buff stone built for the Caledonian Rly in 1901-3 and incorporating a pedestrian entrance to Central Station (NS56NE 77.00), which Miller was then remodelling. Mannerist detial remarkably subdued in the middle bays but breaking out with huge aedicules on the the tower-like end ones carried on Michelangelesque figures by Albert Hodge. In the huge pediments of these, the royal arms of Scotland.
W Williamson, A Riches and M Higgs 1990.
