Designed by John Gibbon, and constructed in the late 1840s, it was decontructed in 1901 to make way for a new building, and was then reconstructed several miles away across the city.

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I mentioned this building in an earlier post today. Now situated next to Queen's Park and known as Langside Halls, it started life as Glasgow's first branch of the National Bank of Scotland on the Queen Street in the centre of the city.

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Rather than simply demolishing this building, it was deconstructed stone-by-stone and reconstructed beside Queen's Park on the Southside of Glasgow, where it became Langside Halls.

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The entrance to a Baroque style former warehouse on Queen Street in Glasgow. Designed by David Barclay, it was originally built for Hunter, Barr and Co.

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Father Clyde on a keystone above the Glasgow Coat of Arms on John Gibson's 1840s National Bank of Scotland Building (which is now Langside Halls).

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The Clyde is in the middle (crowned by two fish with rings in their mouths), while the other rivers represented are thought to be the Thames, the Severn, the Tweed and the Humber.

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The personifications of five great British rivers created by John Thomas in 1847 for the building now known as Langside Halls in Glasgow.

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