The rather stunning Shawlands Cross Church on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by Miller and Black in a distinctive Late Perpendicular Gothic style, it was built in 1900.
An ornate tenement with a former bank branch on the ground floor on the corner of Pollokshaws Road and Moss-side Road at Shawlands Cross in Glasgow. The corner positioning of a distinctive building like this is a key part of Glasgow's architectural tradition.
Traditionally, major road junctions in Glasgow are marked by the presence of one or more of the following: An ornate bank building, an imposing church or a pub. Shawlands Cross on the Southside has the full set!
I always love seeing the ornate pinnacles on the Late Gothic style church at Shawlands Cross in Glasgow. Designed by Miller and Black, and built in 1903, I particularly like the ring of gargoyles around the top which look out in all directions across the city.
Carved decorative lettering on the old Swan Inn building on the corner of Haggs Road and Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow Featuring the symbols Scotland, England and Ireland, they are the initials of the spirit merchant John Hunter Gilmour for whom the building was constructed in 1901. It's currently home to a restaurant called Eala Bhan, which, fittingly, is Gaelic for White Swan.
The top floor dormers, gables and corner dome of Neil C. Duff's 1906 Glasgow Savings Bank building at Shawlands Cross in Glasgow. The bank branch was on the ground floor while these upper floors are residential accommodation.
I love this sculpted road sign on a tenement on Minard Road in the Shawlands area of Glasgow. You often see such relief sculptures on red sandstone tenements built around 1900, but this is the most intricate one I've come across so far.
Looking up are the corner tower of the ornate Glasgow Savings Bank building at Shawlands Cross on the Southside of Glasgow. It was designed by Neil Duff and was built in 1906.
A beautiful tile from a tenement close in Shawlands on the southside of Glasgow. Throughout the close, most of the tiles are white, with just the occasional one like this to add a splash of colour and detail.
The second of the pair of grotesques above the door of Shawlands Cross Church in Glasgow. It's not quite as cute as the other one, which I posted a couple of days ago, but still a great little architectural adornment.
Yesterday I discovered a new favourite Glaswegian ecclesiastical grotesque. It's this cute little one which seems to be pulling itself through the wall of Shawlands Cross Church.
The pillared and domed entrance to the A-Listed former Waverley Cinema in the Shawlands area of Glasgow.
Designed by Watson, Salmond and Gray, this was one of the city's first purpose-built cinemas. It opened in 1922 and could seat 1,320 people. It closed in 1973, and then followed the typical life-cycle of old Glasgow cinemas by becoming a bingo hall, then a snooker club, then lying empty for a prolonged period of time.
One of the octagonal towers on Shawlands Cross Church. Designed by Miller and Black in the wonderfully named Perpendicular Gothic style, it was built in 1903. I particularly like the crown of gargoyles.