110, 120 St Vincent Street and 29-37 (Odd) Renfield Street and W George Lane, Bank of Scot Glasgow, Scotland
Listed Building Data
110, 120 St Vincent Street and 29-37 (Odd) Renfield Street and W George Lane, Bank of Scot has been designated a scheduled monument in Scotland with the following information. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- Historic Scotland ID
- 376660 (entity ID)
- Building ID
- 33156
- Canmore ID
- 140859
- Category
- A
- Name
- 110, 120 St Vincent Street and 29 37 (odd Nos) Renfield Street and West George Lane, Bank of Scotland
- Parish
- Glasgow
- County
- Glasgow, City Of
- Easting
- 258836
- Northing
- 665490
- Date Listed
- 15 December 1970
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
James Miller, 1925-27. Modern classical 8-storey and raised basement commercial building. 9 x 6 bays. Ashlar. Plinth forming stylobate for giant order of engaged Greek Ionic fluted colonnade in antis to St Vincent Street, pilastrade to Renfield Street; wide angle pilasters with rosette necking; basement set behind colonnade storey above with channelled masonry, continuing 1 bay to eastern return; plain windows in deep reveals, tall metal glazed section lighting banking hall at raised ground floor; metal frieze; 1st floor windows plain, bold entablature with dentil band metal plain 2nd floor windows with elaborate Greek key frieze above forming cill band to 3rd and supporting giant pilastrade rising to 5th floor with metal panels between floors; rosette frieze and cornice. 6th floor with plain bipartite windows, rosette frieze and very elaborate main cornice. 1 bay northern return to West George Lane continues main elevation detailing. Rear elevation with twin towers of white glazed brick, metal catwalks at 3rd to 6th floors. INTERIOR: Marble columned banking hall (lowered ceiling).
Listed Building Statement of Special Interest
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Formerly Union Bank. The idea for the design came from the work of York and Sawyer (Chicago). Upgraded B to A 21.7.88
Listed Building References
Text courtesy of Historic Environment Scotland. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
Information by courtesy of Buildings of Scotland Research Unit. Gomme and Walker 1968, pp. 228, 295. Doak (ed) 1977, No 171. S R Archives, D of G 1925/385.
