Architecture Notes

Event ID 689620

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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2 storey and 11 bays, Italian Palazzo style central block with pavilions. 4 central projecting piers around central front door support standing figure sculptures by John Mossman of Homer, Cicero, Galileo and James Watt (c.1880).

NMRS Notes:

Glasgow, 120 Elmbank Street, Glasgow Academy.

Architect: Charles Wilson (1846)

Additions: John Burnet (1867)

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

Glasgow, 120 Elmbank Street, Glasgow Academy.

Scottish National Portrait Gallery: 'Glasgow and Lanarkshire Illustrated' 1910, page 44. -Article and photograph.

The Mitchell Library, Glasgow: 'Glasgow in Former Times' - Engraving (entitled: 'Glasgow Academy').

Glasgow, Glasgow High School for Boys.

Formed 1834 (previously Glasgow Grammar School) and housed in 120 Elmbank Street (Charles Wilson 1846) in 1878.