United Kingdom Provident Building, 122-128 St Vincent Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Commercial. 5 related planning applications.

United Kingdom Provident Building, 122-128 St Vincent Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
guardian-panel-sienna
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
15 December 1970
Type
Commercial
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

Description

John A Campbell, 1906, redeveloped within the facades. Classical with baroque details. 7-storey, 5-bay commercial building with ground floor shops. Bays arranged 1-3-1, outer sections taller and breaking forward at 5th floor. Ashlar, channelled at 1st floor. Central door with sculpted cartouches flanking lintel. Giant order of fluted Ionic pilasters rising from 2nd to 4th floor. All windows in architraves: 1st floor keyblocked; 2nd floor corniced; 3rd floor architraves lugged and with raised lintels, plain outer window with aprons; 4th floor open, keyblocked segmental pedimented windows, with dropped architraves; plain in outer bays; cornice, projecting over pilasters and supporting 5th

floor balustraded balconies in central bays, corniced windows with dropped architraves in outer bays; 6th floor windows open pedimented - segmental and triangular - keyblocked in central bays, raised outer bays; aediculed windows with open shaped pediments, sculpted cartouches.

Rear elevation with 6 simple but striking 7-storey oriels in light yellow brick, a remarkable composition. Original oriel profiles re-created in modern materials during 1980/81 alterations.

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