Architecture Notes
Event ID 689620
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/689620
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.