Corinthian Club

{{short description|County building in Glasgow, Scotland}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Use British English|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox historic site | name = Corinthian Club | native_name = | image = The Corinthian Club (geograph 3796709).jpg | caption = Corinthian Club | locmapin = Scotland Glasgow | map_caption = Shown in Glasgow | coordinates = {{coord| 55.8597|-4.2496|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline,title}} | location = Ingram Street, Glasgow | area = | built = 1752 | architect = David Hamilton | architecture = Mannerist style | designation1 = Category A Listed Building | designation1_offname = Corinthian Club (former Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court), 191 Ingram Street, Glasgow | designation1_date = 15 December 1970 | designation1_number = LB32735 | website = | owner = King City Leisure }} The '''Corinthian Club''' is a private members club in Ingram Street, Glasgow, Scotland. It is accommodated in former bank building which, as '''Lanarkshire House''', became the headquarters of Lanarkshire County Council. It is a Category A listed building.<ref name=listed>{{Historic Environment Scotland|num= LB32735|desc= Corinthian Club (former Sheriff Court and Justice of the Peace Court), 191 Ingram Street, Glasgow|access-date=15 July 2022}}</ref>

==History== The original building on the site was a house known as Virginia Mansion which was commissioned by the Glasgow tobacco merchant, George Buchanan of Mount Vernon, and was completed in 1752.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/smihou/smihou076.htm |first1=John Guthrie|last1= Smith|first2= John Oswald|last2= Mitchell |title= The old country houses of the old Glasgow gentry|location= Glasgow |publisher= James Maclehose|access-date=15 July 2022}}</ref> It was acquired by Alexander Spiers of Elderslie in 1770 and then, after passing through the hands of several other wealthy merchants, it was bought and remodelled to serve as the headquarters of the Glasgow and Ship Bank, which had previously been based in Virginia Street.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dA_XAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT92 |title=Central Glasgow Through Time|first=Etta|last=Dunn|year=2014|publisher=Amberley Publishing|isbn= 978-1445638874}}</ref>

The remodelling was carried out to a design by David Hamilton in the Mannerist style using ashlar stone and was completed in 1842.<ref name=canmore>{{Historic Environment Scotland|cat=PLA |desc=Glasgow, 191 Ingram Street, Lanarkshire House |num= 139309 |num2=NS56NE 308 |access-date=25 June 2025 |fewer-links=yes}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=202721|title=Union Bank|publisher=Dictionary of Scottish Architects|access-date=15 July 2022|archive-date=15 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715100025/http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=202721|url-status=dead}}</ref> The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with seven bays facing onto Ingram Street. In 1843, the Glasgow and Ship Bank merged with the Union Bank of Scotland and the building then became the headquarters of the merged bank.<ref name=listed/>

The building was altered internally to create a telling room to a design by James Salmon in 1853 and then re-fronted to a design by John Burnet between 1876 and 1879.<ref name=ah>{{cite journal|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/architectural-history/article/abs/lanarkshire-house-glasgow-the-evolution-and-regeneration-of-a-merchant-city-landmark/A029038E61A81A98ED7322D2C60B0220|first=George Fairfull |last=Smith|title=Lanarkshire House, Glasgow: The Evolution and Regeneration of a 'Merchant City' Landmark|journal=Architectural History |volume= 42 |year=1999|pages=293–306|doi=10.2307/1568715 |jstor=1568715 |s2cid=191747593 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> The re-fronting involved the construction of a central porch with a heavy brackets supporting an entablature and an open segmental pediment containing a coat of arms; it also involved a row of segmental windows on the ground floor, a Doric order pilastrade enclosing deeply recessed casement windows on the first floor and a Corinthian order colonnade enclosing a series of round headed windows on the second floor. The windows on the second floor contained fine carvings in the tympana and were flanked by figures sculptured by John Mossman.<ref name=canmore/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lUbyAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT30 |title= Glasgow Walks |first1= Campbell|last1= Brown|first2= Steven|last2= Wiggins |year= 1990|publisher=Black and White Publishing|isbn= 978-1845029302}}</ref> Internally, the principal rooms were the telling room, which featured an elaborate coved ceiling, the bullion room, which featured a barrel vaulted ceiling, and the clerks' room.<ref name=listed/>

After the bank relocated to St Vincent Street in the 1920s, Lanarkshire County Council, which had been based at County Buildings in Wilson Street, moved into the Ingram Street building and renamed it Lanarkshire House in 1930. The former bullion store was converted into a courtroom which was used to create additional capacity for sheriff court hearings.<ref name=listed/> The county council relocated to Lanark County Buildings in Hamilton in 1964,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=18108|page=65|date=25 January 1963|city=e}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.emporis.com/buildings/1176889/south-lanarkshire-council-headquarters-hamilton-united-kingdom|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327062554/https://www.emporis.com/buildings/1176889/south-lanarkshire-council-headquarters-hamilton-united-kingdom|url-status=usurped|archive-date=27 March 2020|title=South Lanarkshire Council Headquarters|website=Emporis|accessdate=11 November 2021}}</ref> but the building continued to be used as a courthouse until the court service moved out in 1997.<ref name=ah/> The building was then acquired by a developer, King City Leisure, who, in 1999, restored it and converted into a private members club known as the Corinthian Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thecorinthianclub.co.uk/about/ |title=About us|publisher=The Corinthian Club|access-date=15 July 2022}}</ref> When the building re-opened, artistic work on display included a piece of art entitled "Glaschu", which took the form of a planted green line set in the floor of the bullion room to a design by the British artist, Anya Gallaccio.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.lehmannmaupin.com/museums-and-global-exhibitions/lanarkshire-house-glasgow-scotland |title=Lanarkshire House, Glasgow, Scotland|publisher=Lehmann Maupin| access-date=15 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YtjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA46 |first=Julian|last=Wolfreys|title= New Critical Thinking Criticism to Come |year=2017|page=46|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn= 978-0748699674}}</ref>

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