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Latitude: 55.8585 / 55°51'30"N
Longitude: -4.2497 / 4°14'59"W
OS Eastings: 259284
OS Northings: 665102
OS Grid: NS592651
Mapcode National: GBR 0MM.LM
Mapcode Global: WH3P8.P0JM
Plus Code: 9C7QVQ52+C4
Entry Name: Union Savings Bank Of Scotland, 42 Virginia Street, Glasgow
Listing Name: 42 Virginia Street
Listing Date: 15 December 1970
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 375725
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32798
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: 42 Virginia Street, Union Savings Bank Of Scotland
ID on this website: 200375725
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
R G Melvin and W Leiper, 1867. Late Italian Renaissance
palazzo style, 3-storey and basement commercial
building, 7-bay. Painted ashlar, channelled quoins,
moulded plinth; moulded cill course at 1st floor above
guilloched band course; decoratively bracketted main
cornice. Entrance in centre bay with heavily blocked
architrave and consoled canopy with acroteria. Moulded
architraves to round-arched ground floor windows in
flanking bays; Mannerist aedicules to 1st floor
supported on consoles. Moulded architraves to smaller
2nd floor windows. Plate-glass glazing pattern to sash
and case windows. Stugged, painted ashlar to N return
elevation.
Gateway to N by court, in painted ashlar wall, with
coping and classical pilaster to gatepier; wrought-iron
gates.
Built for Glasgow Gas Light Company, designed by Melvin.
Facade only listed.
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