St Vincent Chambers, 116-128 Buchanan Street, Glasgow is a Grade B listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 28 February 1980. Office building. 10 related planning applications.

St Vincent Chambers, 116-128 Buchanan Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
silver-pinnacle-magpie
Grade
B
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
28 February 1980
Type
Office building
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

St Vincent Chambers, located at 116-128 Buchanan Street in Glasgow, is a six-storey office building designed by John Baird and Thomson in 1902, showcasing a Free Style architectural design. The building is constructed of red sandstone ashlar, with the first floor featuring a partly rusticated finish. The ground floor has modern shop fronts, separated by a dividing cornice.

The Buchanan Street elevation consists of nine bays with outer chamfered angles and pilastered window surrounds. At the center, there is a canted oriel on the first, second, and third floors, topped with a semi-circular pediment above the central light on the second floor. The fourth floor features Ionic pilasters for the tripartite windows, while the fifth floor has panelled pilasters that culminate in a scrolled pediment with a dated cartouche, flanked by twisted columns with cone finials. The flanking bays contain paired windows, with consoled segmental pediments on the first floor, consoled cornices on the second, and pediments on the third and fifth floors. Each end bay has keystoned windows on the first floor, with similar detailing on the second and third floors, and tripartite windows on the fourth and fifth floors, crowned by a cornice and carved panels. The right panel features a heraldic knight and the motto "Vive Deo ut Vivas," while the left displays entwined initials, WBC. The outer chamfered angle bays have plain surrounds, with a swan-neck pediment on the fifth floor window of the left bay and a pediment on its counterpart to the right.

The St Vincent Place elevation includes a round-arched doorway at the outer left with a consoled architrave and a flight of steps leading to the street. Above the ground floor, there is a wide tripartite bay with architraved windows, featuring a pediment over the central light of the third-floor window and a pedimented dormer window above the fifth floor. A blank bay is located at the outer right, which has corbelled shafts of a wallhead stack rising from the third floor, above the applied name "St Vincent Chambers."

On the side elevation facing North Court Lane, there is a glazed brick bay on the left, with modern plate-glass bays extending to the right. The building features plate-glass sash and case windows, and moulded cornices adorn the stacks, with two located at the wallhead on the sides and two positioned at right angles to Buchanan Street.

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