Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564144
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Kelvinside Academy, 20 Bellshaugh Road, 1877, James Sellars
Dignified Greek Ionic temple over plain entrance podium, with severe wings and taller end pavilions. An early work by an eclectic architect, later using any style, Sellars was by temperament a classicist. Cast-iron lamp standards, decorated with entwined bay leaves, flank the entrance. Austere interior, hall behind the elevated entrance and between classrooms. Hugh Fraser Library, 1989, a quiet timber-clad roo
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
