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Latitude: 55.8619 / 55°51'42"N
Longitude: -4.2585 / 4°15'30"W
OS Eastings: 258747
OS Northings: 665494
OS Grid: NS587654
Mapcode National: GBR 0KL.TF
Mapcode Global: WH3P2.KXCL
Plus Code: 9C7QVP6R+QH
Entry Name: Royal Bank Building, 140, 142 St Vincent Street, Glasgow
Listing Name: 140, 142 St Vincent Street and 153, 155 Hope Street, Royal Bank Building
Listing Date: 21 July 1988
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 376663
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33159
Building Class: Cultural
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Burnet and Boston, circa 1900. Late Victorian Renaissance
commercial building. Red sandstone ashlar with rusticated
ground floor. 6-storey, attic and basement with frontage to
St Vincent Street, 2 unequal bays, canted angle and 6 bays
to Hope Street. 2 pedimented Ionic porches and central arched
window in rusticated ground floor; balustraded parapet over
1st floor; W bay canted window through 2nd, 3rd, 4th floors
with main cornice, 5th and attic under segmental pedimented
Ionic feature with coupled and fluted columns; carved
friezes over 3rd floor windows in canted bay. Corner oriel
corbelled over ground, detailed as canted bay but with engaged
Ionic columns to octagonal attic with broad-eaved, flattened
domed roof with Art Nouveau finial.
6-bay flank to Hope Street, semi gable at S end balanced
by tower feature with elaborate bay at N end; 4-bays between
with round arched openings at ground, tripartite to 1st
and 2nd, canted windows 3rd and 4th set between giant Ionic
columns, over arches with carved spandrels to 5th; balustrated
parapet above, gable dormers.
INTERIOR: modernised, some original stained glass survives.
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