Martyrs' Public School (Glasgow, Scotland) : Chimney

Creator:

Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh, British architectural firm, 1904-1913
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, 1868-1928

Published/Created:

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
1895-1898

Date Depicted:

2007
1850 AD - 1899 AD

Materials:

sandstone

Notes:

Mackintosh worked with Honeyman & Keppie, (becoming a partner in 1904). Martyrs' School was comissioned in 1895 and is built on the street where Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born. Like many Glasgow board schools, Martyrs’ is constructed of red sandstone brought in by rail once the local sandstone quarries became exhausted. The plan conforms to the standard layout, which was governed by the requirement of separate entrances for boys and girls. A top-lit well lights a ground-floor drill hall over which galleries on all sides communicate with the classrooms, which were placed on the outer edges of the building to gain the maximum natural light. Over the hall and staircases exposed wooden rafters and ties are either pinned to the walls by brackets or rest on corbels. Externally the clash of stereotyped and new forms may reflect compromises between Keppie and Mackintosh. Of greater interest are the groups of windows set on a continuous bracketed sill, a concept that is neither unique nor new but is of interest when set against the individual verticality of a staircase pierced by a thermal window below oversailing rafter ends. Now an arts centre run by Glasgow Museums.

Variant Titles:

Martyrs' School

Topics:

Architecture -- Britain -- 20th century -- (YVRC)
Architecture -- Scotland -- 20th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Nineteenth century

Culture:

British
Scottish

Accession Number:

1A1-MCR-MPS-A27

Genre:

architecture (AAT)
schools (buildings) (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Sculptures, Models, & Architecture

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

architecture; Education; co-education Art Nouveau; Glasgow style; Nineteenth century buildings; institutional buildings; schools (buildings)

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Addition Module Five

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
2007

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4090

OID:

10053620

PID:

digcoll:1813961