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Glasgow, Queen's Park, General
Park (19th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, Queen's Park, General
Classification Park (19th Century)
Canmore ID 168587
Site Number NS56SE 936
NGR NS 57840 62147
NGR Description Centred on NS 57840 62147
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/168587
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Cathcart (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
QUEEN'S PARK
Built before many of the secession churches re-united with the Church of Scotland, this small but expensive and salubrious residential district has many excellent but now redundant church buildings.
Thomas Crawford had built a house at Camphill in 1777 but, when the cotton manufacturer Robert Thomson bought the estate in 1798, the Camphill Mansion was built. His son Neale Thomson bought the adjoining lands of Pathhead Farm from the Maxwells of Nether Pollok, selling them to the City in 1857 for Queen's Park. When it opened in 1862, on the site of the 1568 Battle of Langside, the Park was named after Mary Queen of Sots, not the reigning Queen Victoria. John Carrick, the city Master of Works, who amended Paxton's Park design, prepared a layout of tenement streets centred on Victoria Road. The Camphill Mansion and estate were sold after Thomson's death to Hutchesons' Hospital, then in 1894 to the City, which added them to the Park. Today there is a model boating pond and there is a hill fort, probably of the iron age at Camp Hill. Across Langside Road are the many pitches of Queen's Park Recreation Grounds, totally devoted to football, as well as the Glass House (see p.00). When the city boundary was extended to the River Cart in 1891, the only open ground was around Clincarthill to the south east.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NS56SE 936.00 centred on 57840 62147
NS56SE 936.01 c.5786 6183 Winter Garden
NS56SE 936.02 57774 62520 Gate Piers (Pollockshaws Road)
NS56SE 936.03 58177 62340 Gateway (Queen's Drive)
NMRS REFERENCE
Glasgow, Queen's Park.
Layout by Sir Joseph Paxton 1860. Modifications by John Carrick.
The park was opened in 1862, commemorating Mary Queen of Scots.
