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A beautiful building from 1890
that is situated in Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland.
Abandoned and unnoticed by the majority as it lays unoccupied, situated within the hustle and bustle of Glasgow's City Centre, underneath the Kingston Bridge M8 Motorway...
I remember studying Art here in the late 1990s and it was a sight to behold when I stepped inside for the first time which has left a big impression on me, the brightly lit Victorian interior was quite frightening as an 8 year old who was used to a more 1970s School environment - in the 1990s.
My Great Grans School in the 1920s also which makes this a special Exploration for me.
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The building is situated at 12 Washington Street, Anderston, Glasgow, Scotland and is of a Category C Listed Status.
Built in 1890 as a Public School for infants and children until the 1970s in which it was converted to an Arts Centre - many people started out here in their craft including the actor Robert Carlyle.
The building avoided demolition in the 1960s during the construction of the Motorway and Kingston Bridge despite the fact that many other buildings were demolished in and around the chosen construction path of the City Regeneration Projects which included the construction of the Motorway and the demolition of a magnitude of old buildings from Tenements to Church grounds with cemeteries and even a beloved Theater - There is nothing to determine why this building did not receive the same treatment as most of Old Anderston during that time period and still today...
There is an interesting Wall in the basement which looks to be from another structure or building - pre construction of the School.
Building Description -
Henry E Clifford, 1889-1890. 3-storey and part basement, rectangular plan School Board school with Gibbsian details and retaining original glazing. Red bull-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings, 1st floor cill course (as band to principal elevation), partial cill course to 2nd floor, wallhead lintel band and stone bracketed eaves.
E (WASHINGTON STREET) ELEVATION: 9-bay elevation (bays grouped 2-5-2) with roll-moulded arrises and keystones to ground floor windows, roll-moulded and architraved windows with banding, keystone and cornice at 1st floor, over cill band inscribed 'Washington Street - School Board of Glasgow - Public School'. Stone porch in bay to left of centre bay group with pedimented stone-mullioned bipartite window and lintel inscribed 'Infants'. Regular fenestration in remaining bays.
N AND S ELEVATIONS: side elevations with tall, advanced pedimented doorways in bays to penultimate E, recessed doors under multi-pane fanlights and keystone breaking into pediment over lintels inscribed 'Boys' and 'Girls' respectively. Bipartite stair windows above, near-regular fenestration in 4 bays to W and bay to E, with expanse of blank wallplane to outer E.
W (CLYDE STREET) ELEVATION: 8-bay elevation with near-regular fenestration, blank bays to outer left at ground and 1st floor. Basement with play-shelter of 3 square-headed openings to right, door and 3 windows to left.
Glazing patterns tiered by floor, timber sash and case windows: ground floor with 4-pane glazing, 1st floor with stylised glazing to upper sash, 2nd floor with 3-pane upper sash. Grey slate roof to piended roof with curtailed leaded 'Munn's' ventilators as ridge finials at head of piends, and to centre ridge. Stone wallhead stack.
INTERIOR: well-detailed decorative scheme in place; tripartite arrangement running E-W. Former infants school classrooms to E front, further classrooms to W front, entrances and staircases to centre of N and S entrance elevations, central galleried toplit hall with keystoned round arches to 2nd floor gallery, pilasters to 1st floor,
decorative iron railings to well and shield ends to supporting metal joists. Sections of boarded dado and occasional keystoned archway.
BOUNDARY WALLS, GATEPIERS, STEPS AND RAILINGS: coped red sandstone dwarf walls to school perimeter with original iron railings and square section sandstone gatepiers, those to main pedestrian gates with domed caps. Stone steps to changing levels of falling ground by W elevation, with railings.
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