1450 Gallowgate, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 15 December 1970. Bank.
1450 Gallowgate, Glasgow
- WRENN ID
- tangled-rafter-moth
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Glasgow City
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 15 December 1970
- Type
- Bank
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
John Keppie (of Honeyman Keppie and Mackintosh), 1907-08; as Glasgow Savings Bank (inscribed). 5-storey and on corner site with renaissance ornament and sculpture, curved corner bay with bank entrance, vertical shafts above and domed attic room with aedicules; 3-bay elevations, low single storey banking hall to Burgher Street. Prominent stacks, roofs concealed from street. Red granite base, contrasting stone-cleaned ashlar above. Good interior, entrance hall and Ionic screens marble, elaborate timberwork in banking hall including counters; chimney pieces and overmantels; glazed roof dome with elaborate plasterwork.
Tenement doorway to Gallowgate, rear access decks to flats.
Sculptured group in niche in tower representing Prudence strangling Want (typiefied by a wolf) by Archibald McFarlane Shannan.
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