Savings Bank, 101, 103, 105 New City Road, Glasgow

The Savings Bank at 101, 103, and 105 New City Road in Glasgow is a four-storey corner building designed by Neil C Duff in 1909, showcasing Edwardian Baroque architecture. The structure is built from red ashlar stone, featuring a rusticated ground floor with decorative voussoirs and a prominently detailed corner section. It has sash and case windows set within architraves and a cornice at the ground floor level.

The southeast corner is particularly striking, with a curved section that includes an open and broken segmental pedimented semi-engaged doorpiece flanked by sidelights supported by granite shafts and corner pilasters. Above this, there is a sculpted tympanum and angle figure sculptures of cherubim. The upper section features a keyblocked, open pedimented window with an aedicule, and a circular three-bay section that rises from the first to the attic floor, showcasing a two-light window set in pilaster strips. The first floor outer bays have a blind balustrade, while the third floor features bowed balconies. The attic is adorned with circular windows and a turret roof topped with a cast-iron finial.

The main block includes a ground floor cill band and sculpted keyblocked arched windows, although the northwest angle has been altered. There are recessed, pedimented entrances on the northern return, complemented by angle quoin strips with sculpted capitals.

On the northern return, the second, third, and fourth bays from the east are canted from the second floor, with a central bay canted from the first floor that features a centre aedicule window breaking through a solid second floor bracketted balcony. The outer canted bays have open, broken pedimented aedicule lights in their central bays, and the outer lights are corniced and keyblocked. A sculpted figure group is positioned over the central bay in the parapet. The extreme northwest and first return bay from the north are set in a pilaster strip topped with open, segmental pediments featuring sculpted tympana. The first floor has keyblocked, aediculed windows with blind balusters, while the third floor has an architraved, keyblocked window with a pediment and a bowed cast-iron balcony.

The western elevation, excluding the northwest corner, consists of three bays, with the outer bays being blank. It features a continuous solid bracketted parapet at the first floor and a canted central bay with a pedimented window at the first floor level. The southern elevation facing Shamrock Street presents a variation of the baroque design with swagged sculpture. The building is topped with corniced ridge, axial, and wallhead stacks.