Interior - view looking towards pulpit, organ and alta, showing hammerbeam roof

Description Interior - view looking towards pulpit, organ and alta, showing hammerbeam roof

Date 1895

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 716768

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 13129

Scope and Content Nave and Chancel, Belmont Church, No 121 Great George Street, Hillhead, Glasgow (latterly the assembly hall for Laurel Bank School and now part of Hutcheson's Grammar School) Belmont Church, a cruciform (cross-shaped) church with no tower, was designed in a Gothic style by the Glasgow architect, James Miller, and built in 1893-4 for the Established Church. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1895. The nave is aisleless, with an impressive hammerbeam roof and simple columns and arches forming the entrances to the transepts. It is lit naturally by three-light arched windows, and artificially by elaborate 'electroliers' with candle-shaped bulbs. The chancel, a five-sided apse, contains three narrow windows with stained glass. In the 1950s the building was bought by Laurel Bank School whose classrooms were housed in an adjacent converted terrace, and a corridor, running partially underground, was built to connect the two. The nave of the church became the school's assembly hall, and a large stage for theatrical performances, concerts and school ceremonies was built across the chancel. The basement, which occupied the whole area below the nave, became the school's refectory. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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