Royal Bank Building, 140, 142 St Vincent Street, Glasgow

The Royal Bank Building, located at 140 and 142 St Vincent Street in Glasgow, was designed by Burnet and Boston around 1900 and showcases a Late Victorian Renaissance style. This commercial building is constructed from red sandstone ashlar, featuring a rusticated ground floor. It stands six stories tall, with an attic and basement, and has a prominent frontage on St Vincent Street that includes two unequal bays and a canted angle, as well as six bays facing Hope Street.

The façade includes two pedimented Ionic porches and a central arched window on the rusticated ground floor. Above the first floor, there is a balustraded parapet. The west bay features a canted window that extends through the second, third, and fourth floors, topped by a main cornice. The fifth floor and attic are highlighted by a segmental pedimented Ionic feature with coupled and fluted columns. Additionally, there are carved friezes above the third-floor windows in the canted bay. A corner oriel is corbelled over the ground floor and is detailed as a canted bay, featuring engaged Ionic columns leading to an octagonal attic topped with a broad-eaved, flattened domed roof and an Art Nouveau finial.

The building's six-bay flank on Hope Street has a semi-gable at the south end, balanced by a tower feature at the north end. The four bays in between include round-arched openings at the ground level, tripartite windows on the first and second floors, and canted windows on the third and fourth floors, all set between giant Ionic columns. These arches are adorned with carved spandrels on the fifth floor, and the structure is capped with a balustrated parapet and gable dormers.

Inside, the building has been modernized, but some original stained glass windows remain.