I'm looking for a bit of help here. I have searched the forums and can't find any mention.
I like doing research on various aspects of Glasgow and this one has me stumped.
At the first floor of the tenement at the corner of Paisley Road West and Stanley Street (27 Paisley Road West), there is a very large Coat of Arms.
First of all; what I
do know.
The Coat of Arms appears to be the Royal Arms of Scotland. The tenement itself is Grade-B listed, as apparently was the preserved interior of the original bank which stood on that corner, now a convenience store. The bank disappeared many years ago and there seems to have been various different convenience stores there over the years. I haven't been inside, but I think I can safely assume that the old wooden bank counters, etc. are long gone.
Banks have their own Coats of Arms, so I don't think it is there because of the original use of the ground floor.
Kinning Park Coat of Arms (the original Burgh building was in Stanley Street) was unoffical and comprised a beehive with bees flying around, so it is not that.
Does anyone know why it is there? And was it there from the beginning (around 1870s) or added later? Is it anything to do with the Royal appointment conferred on Gray and Dunns?