St Mungo's Academy Centenary Club

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The St Mungo's Academy Centenary Club is a villa in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1970 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A. Furthermore, the villa is part of a more comprehensive monument ensemble of category A.

history

The villa was built in 1877 for the partner of the Saracen Foundry , James Marshall , built. Marshall commissioned the Scottish architect James Boucher to plan the building. Over the years, the villa housed the St Mungo's Academy Centenary Club, a club of the nearby St Mungo's Academy , and the Golden Gates Hotel .

description

The two-story St Mungo's Academy Centenary Club is on the Great Western Road ( A82 ) in the northwest Kelvinside district of Glasgow . It is designed in the historicizing Italianate style . The front facade, which is exposed to the southwest, is seven axes wide. The masonry on the ground floor is rusticated . A central projection emerges in the middle . The entrance area there is accessible via a front staircase. It is designed with paired Ionic columns. The entablature shows a metope frieze and closes with a stone balustrade above the cornice. Narrow windows flank the double-winged arched portal . Triangular gables on consoles crown the windows on the upper floor. Ionic pilasters structure the facade vertically. At the risalits they paired flank the central triple window , which closes with a segmented arched gable . A meander frieze divides the facade horizontally. The facade closes with a cornice with elaborately ornamented consoles. A balustrade with a central cartridge runs over it .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
  3. ↑ Entry on St Mungo's Academy Centenary Club  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 55 ° 53 '0.7 "  N , 4 ° 18' 18.4"  W.