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Thursday, May 22, 2025

Govan Town Hall









 Govan Town Hall was built in 1898,it was designed by Thomson and Sandilands in a Beaux Arts style.

The building is B listed and rather grand looking the architects seem to have had a field day with so many ornamentations.

The design involves a symmetrical frontage with thirteen bays along Govan Road, the central section of three bays features an arch doorway on the ground floor.

There are three windows behind a tetrastyle row of Ionic columns on the first floor, above this is a large pediment containing a carved tympanum.

At roof level there is a large dome with a colonnaded cupola on top.

The building has plethora of features including fluted columns and wheel windows.

Glasgow annexed Govan in 1912 [against the will of "Govanites" ]

The building was used by Glasgow District Corporation but gradually fell into a state of disrepair, the interior of the building was completely destroyed when it was refurbished in 1973.

In the early 2000s Gillian Berrie a Scottish film producer raised funds to convert the building into a film production facility going by the name of Film City Glasgow.