140-142 St Vincent Street
A commercial building is located at 140–142 St Vincent Street in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1988 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. Directly to the west is the also listed commercial building 142a – 144 St Vincent Street .
description
The building is at the intersection of St Vincent Street and Hope Street in central Glasgow. It was built around 1900 according to a plan by the architectural firm Burnet and Boston . The six-story corner house is designed in the style of the late Victorian Neo-Renaissance . The facades show a layered brickwork made of red sandstone , which is rusticated in the area of the ground floor . A corner bay cantilevered over it . Another bay window begins on the second floor above the balcony with a stone balustrade and extends over the fourth floor. There it ends at another balcony on corbels , which is continued along the facade as a cornice .
The two entrance portals are designed with flanking Ionic columns, which have broken triangular gables in relief in the tympana as portal crowns. The wide window between the portals is designed with a round arch with a keystone . Arched windows and portals can also be found on the ground floor along the six-axis side facade along Hope Street. The triple windows there on the first and second floors are designed with stylized columns as window posts. On the second floor they close with crowning segment gables or triangular gables with a tooth cut. Colossal Ionic columns between the third and fourth floors flank the bay windows there and support the cornice above.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
Web links
- Entry for 140–142 St Vincent Street in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 51 ′ 42.8 " N , 4 ° 15 ′ 30.6" W.