Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565315
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565315
Queen's Cross Church, 866 Garscube Road, 1896, Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Art Nouveau details on tapering medieval tower contrast with traditional Perpendicular Gothic gables. Rectangular plan with transepts and porch, red sandstone ashlar, slate roof and red ridge tiles. Timber barrel vault tied with steel beams. Some Mackintosh interior furnishings; screen below east gallery, 1939, Thomas Howarth. West window coloured lights, 1960, Gordon Webster. Now Headquarters of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society. Open to the public.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
