Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566126
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566126
Sentinel Works, 61 Jessie Street, 1903, Brand & Lithgow, with Archibald Leitch, engineer
Four-storey clear-span patternmaking shop and offices for Alley & MacLellan, engineers. The earliest reinforced concrete building in Glasgow, using the Mouchel-Hennebique ferro-concrete system. Concrete panel walls with classical cornice, large metal windows and flat roof, anticipating the Modern Movement. Cantilevered rear fire escape stair carried on ornate cast-iron brackets. A disgraceful shell, derelict since the 1960s and at risk from continuing vandalism.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk