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Latitude: 55.954 / 55°57'14"N
Longitude: -3.1912 / 3°11'28"W
OS Eastings: 325714
OS Northings: 674077
OS Grid: NT257740
Mapcode National: GBR 8PF.25
Mapcode Global: WH6SL.YLJZ
Plus Code: 9C7RXR35+HG
Entry Name: Royal Bank Of Scotland, 42 St Andrew Square, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 42 St Andrew Square, Royal Bank of Scotland
Listing Date: 8 December 1987
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 370029
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB29708
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200370029
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: City Centre
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Bank building
Leslie Graham Thomson, with Arthur Davis (Mewes and Davis) as consultant, 1936-42. 4-storey and mezzanine, 7-bay. Massive austere cubic palazzo bank on corner site with portico in antis; H-plan, double height banking hall joining front and rear blocks. Polished cream sandstone ashlar. Rusticated to ground and mezzanine with cornice above; balustraded aprons to 1st floor windows. 3rd floor string course. Cornice and balustraded parapet conceal roof.
ST ANDREW SQUARE ELEVATION: rusticated at ground and mezzanine, with arched windows at ground; giant distyle Roman Doric portico in antis at centre. 3 central windows at 1st floor architraved and corniced.
WEST REGISTER STREET ELEVATION: as above; recessed centre to upper floors. Later flying link across lane.
INTERIOR: finely detailed and preserved inter-war marbled modern, by Thomson and F J Connell. Boardrooms on top floors. Concave marble architraves and dados, simple moulded cornices throughout. Entrance block with spectacular top-lit circular atrium at centre, with brass balcony at each floor; pilastered entrance to banking hall now blocked. Marble Banking Hall with giant Ionic pilasters and series of engraved windows; now divided by suspended floors and ceiling.
An American inspired compostion built for the National Bank.
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