Merchants’ Hall, Hutcheson Street – A Meeting Place, and a Venue for Entertainment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View of The Merchants’ Hall, Hutcheson Street.

 

 

On page 509 of A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland, 1851, vol. 1, Samuel Lewis notes that

the Merchants’ House of Glasgow sold its old Hall on the south-side of Bridgegate-street, as it

no longer was fit for purpose, and :

 

“a commodious building erected in Hutcheson-street, to the north of and in connexion

with the City and County Buildings. Six columns and four pilasters in the Grecian style of

architecture adorn the front, extending two stories above the first or basement story, and

surmounted by a sculptured frieze and a parapet with vases. The edifice was completed in

1843, and contains an elegant hall seventy-five feet by thirty-five feet, with a coved ceiling

twenty-seven feet in height, embellished with Grecian ornamental work : there is also a

room for the directors, and other apartments are occupied by persons engaged in the general

business of the Merchants’ House.”

 

 

 

George Fairfull-Smith, June 2025.