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Recording Your Heritage Online

Event ID 564211

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Recording Your Heritage Online

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/564211

Notre Dame High School, 160 Observatory Road, 1939, designed Thomas Smith (T S) Cordiner

Scandinavian influenced, built 1949-53 on the site of the former Observatory. A long block in yellow brick, concrete and ashlar, with projecting wings, incorporating bas-relief stone panels. Mackintosh-style baluster screens on stairs. Metal sculpture on modernist flèche with cross above main entrance pavilion. Brick shrine with statue of Virgin and Child to north.

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

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