Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565775
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565775
Scotland Street School, 225 Scotland Street, 1904, Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Severe red ashlar budget school, with sparse Art Nouveau decoration. Standard plan of classrooms stacked above the central hall, cloakrooms at the ends, beyond the pair of glittering glass staircase towers, one each for the girls and boys. Like the stairtowers, evocative of the Loire chateaux which influenced many Scottish castles, the dramatic west gable (the east is now hidden) demonstrates Mackintosh's fascination with Scots Renaissance domestic architecture, as used at the Hill House in 1902 and more famously at the Glasgow School of Art, 1907. The swept-down roof of the Janitor's House, like Windyhill in 1900, is a Voysey device (see Central Glasgow, North Cylde Estuary and South Clyde Estuary Guides). Converted to Museum, 1990s. Open to the public, guide book.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
