National Bank, 190 Trongate, Glasgow

The National Bank, located at 190 Trongate in Glasgow, is a four-storey and attic commercial building designed in 1903 by T P Marwick from Edinburgh, with sculptural work by W Birnie Rhind. It features a mixed Renaissance style, with a façade of four bays facing Glassford Street and three bays on the Trongate side, constructed from ashlar stone and a polished granite base course with columns.

On the Glassford Street elevation, there are three round-arched bays at the ground level in the center and to the right. The central arch contains an off-centre Roman Doric columned doorpiece, topped with a semi-circular carved panel and flanked by two similarly styled windows. To the north, there is a smaller architraved and keystoned door, with small stair windows above it on the second and third floors. The ground floor features a channelled design with rounded edges and a modillion cornice above. The first and second floors have three keystoned and corniced windows with Gibbs surrounds. The building's corners are accentuated by corbelled turrets that rise through the third floor and attic, topped with finialled domes. The third floor windows are divided by Ionic engaged columns, and there is a modillioned main cornice with an elaborate three-stage wallhead gable above, adorned with sculpted figures.

The Trongate elevation mirrors the Glassford Street design but lacks the left-hand door and stair window bay, featuring glazing in the three arches at the ground level.

The rear elevation is also made of ashlar stone, showcasing a tall panelled stack rising from the third floor, a steep pyramidal roof, and wrought-iron cresting. It includes small-pane casement windows and a slated French pyramid roof with decorative iron ridge railings. The interior has been modernised.