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

Burnet and Boston, circa 1900. Late Victorian Renaissance

commercial building. Red sandstone ashlar with rusticated

ground floor. 6-storey, attic and basement with frontage to

St Vincent Street, 2 unequal bays, canted angle and 6 bays

to Hope Street. 2 pedimented Ionic porches and central arched

window in rusticated ground floor; balustraded parapet over

1st floor; W bay canted window through 2nd, 3rd, 4th floors

with main cornice, 5th and attic under segmental pedimented

Ionic feature with coupled and fluted columns; carved

friezes over 3rd floor windows in canted bay. Corner oriel

corbelled over ground, detailed as canted bay but with engaged

Ionic columns to octagonal attic with broad-eaved, flattened

domed roof with Art Nouveau finial.

6-bay flank to Hope Street, semi gable at S end balanced

by tower feature with elaborate bay at N end; 4-bays between

with round arched openings at ground, tripartite to 1st

and 2nd, canted windows 3rd and 4th set between giant Ionic

columns, over arches with carved spandrels to 5th; balustrated

parapet above, gable dormers.

INTERIOR: modernised, some original stained glass survives.