Royal Exchange Square

It is also easily accessible from Buchanan Street on the west side of the square, through two prominent archways at Royal Bank Place.

Tobacco lord William Cunninghame's mansion and gardens fronting Queen Street, and central to the future square, were constructed in 1778 when the wealth of Glasgow soon eclipsed the remainder of Scotland.

[7][8] In front of the vast portico is Baron Marochetti's noble bronze equestrian statue of Duke of Wellington, erected in 1844.

On the tall granite base are bronze reliefs of the battles of Assaye and Waterloo, the Return of the Soldier, and Peace and Agriculture.

[12] The classically designed former Chief Office of the Royal Bank of Scotland stands at the western end of the square.