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Glasgow High School: Teaching Buildings
Date 12 August 2014
Event ID 980326
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/980326
Main block, Elmbank Street. Italian Renaissance. 2 storeys, 11 bays; later attic. Ashlar, channelled central piers and quoins. 4 central projecting piers supporting standing figure sculptures by John Mossman of Homer, Cicero, Galileo, and Watt, circa 1880. Triumphal arches with channelled piers link central block to 4-bay wings, McLure 1875 and 1887 (S wing dated), similarly detailed to main block.
SCIENCE BLOCK: John Watson (Watson, Salmond, and Gray) 1931-32. Classical 3-storeys, 8 bays to Elmbank Street. Ashlar, channelled at ground floor.
71-83 Holland Street 2-storey, 7-bay block with entrance bay and 2 additional western bays. Ashlar, channelled at ground floor, rusticated quoins. Entrances in outer bays breaking through ground floor entablature with channelled voussoirs, corniced.
Formerly Glasgow Academy, became Glasgow High School, now Strathclyde Regional Council. (Historic Environment Scotland List Entry)
