Notre Dame High School (Glasgow)

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Notre Dame High School

The Notre Dame High School is a Catholic, leading girls' school in the Scottish city Glasgow . In 1987 their building was included in the Scottish Monument Lists in the highest monument category A.

history

The school was founded in 1897 by the Roman Catholic School Sisters of Our Lady of Namur . In 1938 the planning of today's school building began. The Scottish architect Thomas Smith Cordiner is responsible for the design . Due to the outbreak of the Second World War , the construction was initially not carried out. It was taken up again in 1949 and closed by 1953. In June 2010, a fire broke out in the school.

description

Notre Dame High School is at the end of Observatory Road in Victoria Circus in the northwestern Glasgow district of Dowanhill . Cordiner's design has elements of modernism and neoclassicism . The building has a roughly F-shaped floor plan with an additional wing at the lower end that extends in the opposite direction. The facades of the brick building are plastered and partly designed with exposed concrete elements . There are metal-framed windows with metal window bars.

The main entrance is on the three-story central projectile on the south-east exposed, symmetrically constructed main facade. Above the vertical window elements on the first floor, sculptured panels depicting the arts and sciences are embedded. The library above is designed with a flat window element. The base of the seated cross has a modernist design. The entrance area is flanked by five axes wide components. A brick extension from 1979 goes off at the back. The school canteen is housed in the one-story north wing and the sports hall in the one-story south wing.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ^ Information from the City of Glasgow
  3. ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
  4. ↑ BBC News: Primary shut by fire at former Notre Dame high school , June 13, 2010.
  5. ↑ Entry on Notre Dame High School  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 55 ° 52 ′ 41.8 "  N , 4 ° 17 ′ 56.5"  W.