St Vincent Street Church

 

St. Vincent Street Church is a Presbyterian church on St. Vincent Street in Glasgow, Scotland. It was designed by Alexander Thomson (also known as "Greek" Thomson) and built from 1857 to 1859 for the former United Presbyterian Church of Scotland.

It is a Category A listed building and is owned by Glasgow City Council.

In 1998 the building was listed in the 1998 World Monuments Watch by the World Monuments Fund, and again in 2004 and 2006. The Fund helped restore the tower, with support from American Express.

In March 2026, the Alexander Thomson Society opened a public consultation about the future of the church. The group's plan is to reopen it as a mixed spiritual and secular space.

Walmer Crescent

 

Walmer Crescent is a gently curving terrace of spacious tenement flats and houses in the Cessnock district of Glasgow, designed by Alexander “Greek” Thomson and constructed between 1857 and 1862. The seamless red sandstone façade shelters seven individual buildings over a raised basement, each accessed by three doorways leading to flats or closes. This crescent diverges from the typical tenement street pattern, creating a distinctive boulevard along Paisley Road West. The entire block is protected as a Category A listed building, and the surrounding area was designated the Walmer Crescent Conservation Area on 16 July 1975

Holmwood House

Holmwood House is the finest and most elaborate residential villa designed by the Scottish architect Alexander "Greek" Thomson. It is also rare in retaining much of its original interior decor, and being open to the public. A Category A listed building, the villa is located at 61–63 Netherlee Road, Cathcart, in the southern suburbs of Glasgow, and is owned by the National Trust for Scotland.

Holmwood is considered to be immensely influential by several architectural historians, because the design as published in Villa and Cottage Architecture: select examples of country and suburban residence recently erected in 1868[1] may have influenced Frank Lloyd Wright and other proto-modernist architects.

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Caledonia Road Church

 

Caledonia Road Church

Caledonia Road church was completed in 1857. Alexander Thomson was the main architect.

 In 1963 the church use of Caledonian Road Church ended and the city of Glasgow took over the building. In October 1965, the church burned down and was subsequently partially demolished. Although some work has been done to the structure of the building, the risk to the ruin is considered high. Unfortunately, all plans to restore and to find it an alternative use, have all faded away. Sadly, the building sits forlornly on its own, crumbling away.