Architecture Notes
Event ID 791215
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/791215
NS66NW 17.01 60255 65657 Burial Ground (New Burial Ground)
Crypt - 1250, Choir - 1250, Nave - 1300, Chapter House - 1420, Fergus Aisle - 1500.
David Hamilton 1812 - opened West window and repaired tracery
Edward Blore - restoration of crypts 1835 (executed by Nixon)
James G Graham, A W N Pugin, Robert Matheson, 1850, C H Wilson - stained glass
William Stark - choir of Inner High Church
NMRS REFERENCE:
Plans:
I G Lindsay Collection W/293
Plans by J Collie, 1836
Proposed restoration
Drawings by Glasgow Royal Technical College done for the National Art Survey
Inglis Photograph Collection Acc No 1994/90
'Glasgow Cathedral from the Necropolis. 474. AI.'
Scomberg Scott Plans
New chair and desk in the Sanctuary as a memorial to the RAF Glasgow Squadron and new table in St Nicholas Chapel
Acc No 1993/69
Three pages from a dismembered photograph album including one page containing four views of the cathedral - one exterior and three interiors
Ross Sketchbook MS 28/463/14/1 (unlocated at time of upgrade 3.9.1999)
Chapter House details
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Mitchell Library
T Fairburn's Relics of Anc Arch p1 - view from Garnethill
p5 - tombs in churchyard
Bygone Glasgow - text illustrations of door of crypt
Glasgow in Former Times 1 - pencil and wash sketch of tower before removal
2 - engraving
- lithograph c.1837
William Graham 1 p18 - photograph of head of St Thomas
- tower showing Bishop Lauder's Arms
p20 - five photographs including Blackadder's
2 p4 - photograph of George Rogus memorial in burial ground
- photograph 1876
- engraving 1849
- engraving of crypt
- pencil and wash sketch of West tower
Glasgow and Lanarkshire Illustrated p8 - article and photograph
Courtauld Institute: Sculpture Neg:
Sir John Steel Monument to William Graham B77/4192
R Jackson Monument to Robert B Anderson B77/4193; 888/72(3)
J Mossman Monument to Major W Middleton B77/4165; 888/72(6); (5); 889/1(7); (8)
P MacGillivray Monument to James Hedderwick B77/4194; 889/1(9)
Sir John Steell Monument to 93rd Sutherland Highlanders 877/4164; 888/72(2); (1)
Scottish Record Office
Painted window in Glasgow Cathedral
Payment of £24.5.5 (pounds) to C Heath Wilson [1809 - 1882]
Cash book
1864 GD 220/6/43
Records of Crown Estate Commissioners
CR4/143, 144
Reports on the state of the building in 1829 - 1838
RIBA Drawings Collection
J D Crace Sketch Book p36 - Sketch of interior, detail at Cross, details Blackadder crypt
Glasgow Architectural Association Sketch Book 1887, Vol 2 - Porch at South entrance to Crypt, Lady Chapel, North Transept, Chapter House
The Builder's Journal
May 27th and June 3rd 1896
Elevation and details of Chapter House doorway measured and drawn by Charles J Menart
The Builder's Reporter and Engineering Times
December 6th 1893
Drawing by John Honeyman of reredos
The British Architect
December 6th 1895
Two drawings of rood screen drawn by A Hemstock Hodge
