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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Sixty Steps

 
The Sixty Steps, are located in Glasgow's West End. The steps were designed by Alexander "Greek" Thomson, a once pominient Glasgow architect. The steps date from the 1870's, and are still very much in use today. At the top of the stairs, there is a walled area, which also has a small garden.