North British and Mercantile Building
The North British and Mercantile Building 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 building was built between 1926 and 1929 to a design by Scottish architect John James Burnet . This is Burnet's last completely new build in Scotland. In 1987 the building was renovated. The measure mainly concerned the interior.
description
The North British and Mercantile Building is at the intersection of St Vincent Street and West Campbell Street in central Glasgow. The seven-storey building is designed in a neoclassical style. The facades along both streets are five axes wide. Columns flank the main portal on St Vincent Street. The statues perched on the flanking Doric columns were added around 1952. The portal closes with a Diocletian window . Above it is a relief by the sculptor Archibald Dawson . An arcade of five triple windows , closing Diocletian windows and Doric columns form the facade of the ground floor. A simple cornice divides the facade horizontally between the second and third floors . Stylized keystones extend from this to the elongated lattice windows below . The motif is taken up again in a detailed form on the top floor under the tooth cut of the final cornice . A carved cartridge decorates the edge of the building between the fifth and sixth floors.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Entry on North British and Mercantile Building in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 51 '44.1 " N , 4 ° 15' 39.5" W.