Listed Building

The only legal part of the listing under the Planning (Listing Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997 is the address/name of site. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing – see 'About Listed Buildings' below for more information. The further details below the 'Address/Name of Site' are provided for information purposes only.

Address/Name of Site

110, 120 ST VINCENT STREET AND 29-37 (ODD NOS) RENFIELD STREET AND WEST GEORGE LANE, BANK OF SCOTLANDLB33156

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
15/12/1970
Local Authority
Glasgow
Planning Authority
Glasgow
Burgh
Glasgow
NGR
NS 58836 65490
Coordinates
258836, 665490

Description

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).

Statement of Special Interest

Formerly Union Bank. The idea for the design came from

the work of York and Sawyer (Chicago).

Upgraded B to A 21.7.88

References

Bibliography

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.

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

The legal part of the listing is the address/name of site which is known as the statutory address. Other than the name or address of a listed building, further details are provided for information purposes only. Historic Environment Scotland does not accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered as a consequence of inaccuracies in the information provided. Addresses and building names may have changed since the date of listing. Even if a number or name is missing from a listing address it will still be listed. Listing covers both the exterior and the interior and any object or structure fixed to the building. Listing also applies to buildings or structures not physically attached but which are part of the curtilage (or land) of the listed building as long as they were erected before 1 July 1948.

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