Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566122
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566122
St Francis Centre, 405 Cumberland Street, 1868, Gilbert Blount
Built as St Francis RC Church and Friary. Very tall church rebuilt 1870, Pugin & Pugin, in their characteristic Decorated Gothic. Converted to community centre 1996, Page & Park. Elegant three-storey timber and glass suite of function rooms inserted within the church. Original Blount Friary converted to high-quality flats for the elderly, 1996, Page & Park. Glasgow Institute of Architects Award, 1997. Civic Trust Award, 1998. Shortlisted for Regeneration of Scotland Award, 1998. (See also Page & Park's similar insert at St Teresa of Lisieux, p. 00.)
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
