Royal Faculty of Procurators building in Glasgow
The Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow is a commercial building in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1966 the building was included as an individual monument in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
The Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow , a legal organization, had its headquarters built in 1854 at what was then St George's Place , now Nelson Mandela Place . The Scottish architect Charles Wilson won the tender . Between 1872 and 1875 the building was redesigned and expanded based on a design by David Thomson . The Orr Library was added in 1939 by Thomas Harold Hughes . It was restored in the 1970s or 1980s.
description
The Royal Faculty of Procurators in Glasgow is located in the city center at Nelson Mandela Place. The surrounding buildings include the Athenaeum Theater , the Glasgow Stock Exchange and St George's Tron Church .
The building is designed in the style of the Venetian Neo-Renaissance . The east-facing facade on Nelson Mandela Place and the south-facing facade along West George Street are each five axes wide, while the west facade on West Nile Street is only three axes wide. The masonry on the ground floor is rusticated . All building openings close with round arches with keystones . These show reliefs by important Scottish lawyers on the ground floor. The entrance portal is centrally located on West George Street. It is designed with flanking pilasters and sculptured spandrels. A triglyph frieze with guttae and a continuous balcony with a stone balustrade run above the ground floor .
The archivolts of the windows on the upper floor are ornamented. Paired Corinthian columns are flanked . A Venetian window is set along West Nile Street . A richly ornamented frieze runs beneath the cornice with a tooth cut . A stone balustrade stretches over it.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
Web links
- Entry on the Royal Faculty of Procurators building in Glasgow in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 51 '44.1 " N , 4 ° 15' 16.5" W.