Architecture Notes

Event ID 785977

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS56NE 212.00 59360 65376

NS56NE 212.01 59448 65351 30-50 John Street (City Chambers Extension)

NS56NE 212.02 59434 65380 North Screen Archway

NS56NE 212.03 59423 65333 South Screen Archway

Architect: William Young, 1887.

Banqueting Hall

Architect: William Leiper

REFERENCE:

Courtauld Institute Sculpture Neg Collection

City Chambers exterior: reliefs

spandrels

tympanum

cornice figures

putti on North tower

figures on central tower

See also : Maclure, Macdonald & Co.: 'The City Chambers, Glasgow', 1890? purchased by NLS in June 2002. This is a large folio presentation album containing photographs of Glasgow's City Chambers, shortly after completion in 1889. This item is different from 'The Municipal Buildings, Glasgow', published by David Bryce and Son, in 1890 (copy held in NMRS Library) in that 'The City Chambers, Glasgow' contains 30 actual photographs by Maclure, Macdonald and Co. whereas 'The Municipal Buildings' features 20 collotype illustrations by Bedford Lemere and Co. Although 17 of the images have concordances in 'The Municipal Buildings', this item features 11 new photographs and 2 slightly later exposures.