6 Gordon Street

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There is a commercial building at 6 Gordon Street in the Scottish city ​​of Glasgow . In 1966 the structure was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.

history

The building was built between 1854 and 1857 to a design by Scottish architect David Rhind for the Commercial Bank of Scotland , now part of the Royal Bank of Scotland . The total cost was £ 14,918. A further £ 200 was spent on the sculptural decoration by Alexander Handyside Ritchie . Changes in 1871 added £ 2,874; those two years later at £ 500. Both works were carried out by Rhind. In 1886 the building was extended to a design by Sydney Mitchell . After two modernization measures of the interior in the 1930s, the building was redesigned again between 1948 and 1953.

In the 1850s, the building featured in three specialist architectural publications, including two from the Royal Scottish Academy . Further mentions followed in 1905 and 1907.

description

The three- to four-story building is on Gordon Street between Buchanan Street and West Nile Street near Glasgow Central Station in the center of Glasgow. It is designed in the style of the neo-renaissance . The south-facing front facade is eleven axes wide, which are arranged in scheme 3–5–3. The masonry made of polished stone is designed with structured rustication on the ground floor . A frieze with a tooth cut runs above the arched portal with a keystone in relief . Corinthian columns flank the balcony on the first floor. The windows decorated with pilasters close with a segmented arched gable with rich ornamentation with cherubim reliefs in the tympanum .

Above the second floor there is another frieze with a tooth cut and a final cornice supported on consoles . Along the outer axes, a balustrade hides the roof behind. In contrast, the building has four floors along the central axes. A pseudocolonnade made of Corinthian columns divides the nine arched windows with keystones on this floor. Another cornice protrudes above it.

In the interior there is a two-story bank hall, which is partly designed with marble. There are offices on the floors above.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ a b Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk

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Coordinates: 55 ° 51 '37.9 "  N , 4 ° 15' 17.4"  W.