Bank Of Scotland, 2 St Vincent Place, Glasgow

J T Rochead, 1867-70. Italian Renaissance bank and office

building 3-storey and basement palazzo, 9-bays to St

Vincent Place, 7 to George Square, 3-bays to No 2 Anchor

Lane with 4 more bays in much reduced detail to No 4

Anchor Lane, the latter with attic storey. Sculpture by

William Mossman. Massive atlantes doorpiece with Bank of

Scotland crest above flanked by symbolic figures; shell-

headed door piece and flanking pilastered shell-headed

windows divided by pilaster strips of banded vermiculation to

ground floor, consoled segmental shell pediments to 1st floor

with balustraded balconies, architraves to 2nd; guilloched

2nd floor cill course, cornice with tripled brackets, balustrade

and dies (formerly with urns). Modern plate glass glazing;

moulded coping to stacks.

INTERIOR: Banking Hall of 3 x 3 bays square, with Corinthian

columns dividing panelled areas and supporting modillioned

frieze and semi-circular panels with masqued keystones and

caryatid in spandrels supporting, flat trabeated ceiling with hemispherical glazed and chequered dome; decorative plasterwork; original consoled panelled counter. Vestibule with inlaid

marble floor, balustrade and open pedimented and consoled

doorpieces. Some internal work by Andrew Balfour.