Description

H and D Barclay; dated 1895. Board school, a 2-storey block on gushet site in the "palazzo-style" characteristic of their Glasgow schools, using restrained Thomsonesque Greek ornament; stone-cleaned red ashlar, rock-faced, polished dressings; symmetrical N front with pedimented centrepiece, 3-light centre; 2-light outer windows, pilastered mullions at ground floor, Ionic-column mullions at 1st; original glazing, roughly T-shaped; prominent mutule cornice. Flanks are not identical, though boys'/girls' entrances are on opposite flanks; W flank to Cathcart Road is the more architectural and repeats mullion detailing of N front; inner entrance bay advanced and pedimented, sculptured spandrels over doorway, thermal window at eaves. Piended slate roofs, corniced stacks at and above wall-heads.

PLAYGROUND WALLS also rock-faced and stepped to slope, square

GATEPIERS, decorative wrought-rion gates and railings.

Statement of Interest

Originally Mount Florida Public School.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17813719

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Recommended Books

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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings