The Scots Baronial brilliance of Frank Stirrat's 1879 Dixon Halls on Cathcart Road in the Govanhill area of Glasgow. These public halls were a gift from William S. Dixon of the Govan Iron Works.
How can you fail to love a city which has decorations like this not on a castle, or a grand mansion or its town hall, but on a tenement building? This is part of W.M. Whyte's 1905 Scots Baronial tenement on Broomhill Drive in Glasgow.
My favourite Glasgow tenement looking magnificent in the early morning sun. Situated on Broomhill Drive, it was designed by W.M. Whyte and was built in 1905.
A rather beautiful Scots Baronial style villa on Nithsdale Road on the Southside of Glasgow. Built around 1887, it was designed by the architect W.F. McGibbon as his own house. Amongst other buildings, McGibbon also designed the nearby Sherbrooke Mosspark Church.
The rather wonderful Scots Baronial style former Peter Brough District Nursing Home on Oakshaw Street in Paisley. Built in 1897, it was designed by T G Abercrombie.
Peter Brough was a successful Paisley draper who died in 1883. Built with a bequest he left behind, the home aimed to employ people who would devote their time to 'visitings, consolling and comforting of afflicted christians, and reading to them the bible.'
Tenements like this one at the junction of Dumbarton Road and Plean Street shows how the Scots Baronial style influenced not only grand municipal buildings in Glasgow, but also the every day ones where people lived.
Part of the facade of a rather wonderful Scots Baronial warehouse on the corner of Brunswick Street and Ingram Street in Glasgow. It was designed by R.W. Billings and was built in 1854. The original building behind the facade was replaced by a new building in the 1980s.
I love this view of James Miller's 1897 Caledonian Mansions standing high above the River Kelvin on the West End of Glasgow. From this point of view, it's easy to see how many elements of the Glasgow Style came about by blending the flowing, sinuous lines of the Art Nouveau movement with the embelishments of the more traditional Scots Baronial style, such as corner towers and pepperpot turrets.
The beautifully compact Wester Moffat House in Airdrie to the east of Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilson in a Scots Baronial style, it was built for the Glasgow lawyer William Towers-Clark in 1859. It's now part of Wester Moffat Hospital, but the building is no longer used.
A large Scots Baronial commercial building on the corner of Trongate and Albion Street in Glasgow. Designed by J.T. Rochead, it was built in 1854 for the City of Glasgow Bank.
Elstow, an early Victorian Villa in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow. It was greatly altered and extended in the Scots Baronial style in the 1890s by the architect A.N. Peterson.
Characteristic features of the Scots Baronial architectural style. On the left is a pepperpot turret (also known as a tourelle), while to its right is a crow-stepped gable. Together these features help give Glasgow's many Scots Baronial buildings their distinctive look.
The main tower of James Thomson's 1903 Scots Baronial Municipal Building in Dumbarton viewed through the 15th Century arch of Saint Mary's Collegiate Church.
Govanhill Burgh Hall on Cathcart Road in Glasgow. Built in 1879 and designed by Frank Stirrat in a Scots Baronial style, it was paid for by W.S. Dixon of the Govan Iron Works.
Towers and turrets, chimneys and cannons: This is what the Scots Baronial style is all about. This is Overtoun House just outside Dumbarton, but you can see such Scots Baronial features on many buildings throughout Glasgow.
The Scots Baronial splendour of Overtoun House on the edge of the Kilpartrick Hills to the west of Glasgow. It was designed by James Smith and was built in the 1860s.
A wonderful pair of Scots Baronial style villas on Buckingham Street in the west end of Glasgow. Designed by Horatio K. Bromhead, they were built in 1886.