Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Society, 31-39 St Vincent Place, Glasgow

Campbell Douglas and Sellars, 1872-73. 3-storey and

basement, 7-bay Italian Renaissnce commercial building,

raised by 2 storeys and mansard attic. White sandstone

ashlar. Polished granite columns. Central Corinthian

columned porch oversailing basement area fronting round

arched keystoned and columned doorway. Arched windows

in ground, 1st and 2nd floors, attached Corinthian

columns or pilasters to ground with sculpted spandrels,

Corinthian pilastered above with blind balustrade at 1st

and cornice detail linked to give continuous 1st floor

cornice. Sculpture rosettes in spandrels and carved

panels between. 2nd floor windows flanked by blind niches.

Above 2nd floor 3, 2-storey pilasters. Shallow canted

windows with flanking single lights. Centre light of

3rd floor segmentally pedimented aedicule with sculpture

in tympanum. Tripartite pedimented dormers behind.

Modern casement glazing. Slate mansard. Sculpture by

William Mossman.

Decorative wrought-iron railings to basement with gilded

details, and polished granite die.

INTERIOR: Corninthian columned business hall, re-

furbished.