Scotland Street School, Glasgow: the entrance facade with a pair of Scottish Baronial style conical-roofed stair towers
Architect/Designer | Honeyman Keppie & Mackintosh |
Artist/Photographer | Hunter, Alastair (1938-1991) |
Country | UK: Scotland |
City | Glasgow |
Subject Date | 1906 |
Image Date | 1980 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Art Nouveau |
Medium | Transparency |
Library Reference | AHCT1439 |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Colour |
Credit | Alastair Hunter / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Towers ; Stone ; Windows ; Schools |
NOTES: Designed in 1903-1906 for a school roll of 1250 pupils, this school closed in 1979 with a school roll of only 100 pupils. It eventually underwent major restoration under the direction of Strathclyde. Architectural & Related Services Department during the 1990s and reopened in 2001 as the Scotland Street School Museum which demonstrates what school life was like in the 1900s.
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