Martyrs Public School

 Martyrs Public School is situated in Parson Street Townhead.

The architects were Honeyman and Keppie,the school was built in 1898,it would have been surrounded by tenements, these days it sits behind some trees overlooking a busy road. 

At the time of building Charles Rennie Macintosh was a senior assistant in the practice, you can see his influence on the doors ,windows and cupolas.

The school is mainly built from red sandstone, the inside has some Art Nouveau details.

If your looking for classic Macintosh you wont find it in this building ,just the odd glimmer of what the future would bring.

The building is listed as category A , it is currently up for sale. 

Sherbrooke Castle Hotel

The hotel is in Polloksheilds a few minute's from Dumbreck train station, it was originally built as a villa for a wealthy business man, John Morrrison in 1896

The red sandstone villa was designed by Thomson and Sandilands who built the former Govan Town Hall.

The building is in a  Scottish Baronial style and its square tower is a well known landmark.

During the second world war it was requestioned by the Royal Navy and used as a training centre for Naval Officers, it is a B listed building .

Glasgow Botanic Gardens footbridge

The humpback bridge,also known as the Glasgow Botanic Gardens footbridge, is the main bridge over the River Kelvin that connects to the Botanic Gardens. This Class B listed bridge is part of the Kelvin Walkway, a scenic route along the river. The bridge was recently refurbished with work including blasting and painting all steelwork, and reinstatement of the deck.

 

 

 

Kelvinside Hillhead Church

 

 

The church was  completed in 1876, and was designed by the architect James Sellars. The church was apparently modelled on the Parisian Gothic church, the Sainte Chapelle. It was built, by local subscriptions, to replace an iron church in the fields to the west of Byres Road.

The west-facing front facade has a superb rose window flanked by relief sculptures of angels. Like the original in Paris, there are twin octagonal towers and on the apex of the roof soars the delicate third spire or fleche, again in the style of the French original. The whole structure is supported on piles driven through the old mine workings which permeate the area.

 

 

Pitt street police station

 The Pitt Street offices, built in 1924, were previously home to Strathclyde Police, which was the country's largest force from 1975 until the merger of the eight Scottish Police Forces in 2013.

 

 The building has since been demolished and flats now stand on the site of the old police station.