Union Bank Of Scotland, 117 St Vincent Street, 115, 115A, Glasgow

John Burnet Snr, 1870. Italian Renaissance commercial

building. 3 storeys and basement, 7 bays. Polished

ashlar; rusticated with voussoired lintels ground floor.

Outer distyle porticos with composite columns (polished

granite) on high pedestals, stone steps rising through,

arched entrances with fanlights, modillion cornices. 5

inner windows simplified cornice linked to porticos.

Plate glass sash and case windows in architraves at

upper floors. 1st floor: balustraded balconies

breaking forward over porticos and in 3 central bays on

sculpted figurehead consoles; semi-engaged Corinthian

colonnade breaking forward to segmental pedimented

aedicules with sculpted tympana in outer and central

bays. 2nd floor: windows in shouldered and lugged

architraves on cill band. Incised eaves frieze, stylised

modillion cornice advanced with coupled consoles at

ends. Solid panelled die parapet with swagged pyramidal

finials.