Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565183
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Cottier Theatre, 93 Hyndland Street, 1865, William Leiper
Former Dowanhill Church and Halls, won in competition, beating John Honeyman, until then the recognised United Presbyterian church architect. Leiper had trained with Boucher & Cousland, then gained experience in several offices, before entering a partnership in 1864 with Robert Grieve Melvin. Melvin had inherited James Smith's office and they now completed the latter's design for Stirling's Library (see Central Glasgow Guide). Soon after his competition success, Leiper split with Melvin to set up his own practice. Dowanhill, superbly designed in elongated Gothic, is a typical Normandy church. With its fine tall steeple and spire, the church dominates the skyline from both Dumbarton Road and Byres Road. Inside is a three-sided gallery on cast-iron columns under a hammerbeam roof. Daniel Cottier stained glass and fragments of stencilled interior wall decorations. Converted to theatre, late 1980s, Ian Begg. Restored from 1997, Four Acres Charitable Trust, with drawings by Nicholas Groves-Raines. The Trust, with Lottery funding, is progressing plans to open a Cottier Study and Exhibition Centre.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
