Interior view of Cairndhu Hotel, Helensburgh, showing detail of stained glass in hall.

Description Interior view of Cairndhu Hotel, Helensburgh, showing detail of stained glass in hall.

Date 3/1965

Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 1943763

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of DB 41

Scope and Content Scottish National Buildings Record. Written on verso of the mounted print: 'Shire: Dunbartonshire. Place: Helensburgh. Building: Cairndhu Hotel. Photographer: G.N. Date: March 1965. Stained glass in hall'. Detail of stained glass, Cairndhu, Rhu Road Lower, Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute Cairndhu, a two-storeyed asymmetrical villa, was built in 1871 to designs by architect William Leiper (1839-1916), and the service wing was extended in 1902. The interior was decorated by artist Daniel Cottier (1838-91), and includes Japanese-style painted ceilings and fine stained glass panels. It was converted to a hotel in 1956, and a residential home in 1984. This shows four square panels of stained glass depicting birds within roundels. These include a nightingale with a crescent moon above, and a pair of swallows set against a sunrise. The full-length female figures below represent the seasons of the year. Daniel Cottier's professional collaboration with William Leiper include stained glass and decorative paintwork for villas as well as ecclesiastical commissions such as the United Presbyterian Church, Dowanhill, Glasgow. His distinctive style often features strongly modelled and vividly coloured figures with head studies above. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

External Reference MW/BR/HEL/20

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