The Gothic style Saint Mungo's Retreat on Parson Street in the Townhead area of Glasgow. Designed by Osmund Cooke, it was built in the 1890s.
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The church was built in 1841 in an Italianate Gothic style from a design by George Goldie.
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Love this spirelet on Saint Mungo's Church in the Townhead area of Glasgow, with fish-scale bands and topped by an ornate iron cross with a rather unusual heart-shaped nimbus.
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Like this newer one, many of these older sundials had multiple gnomons, the official name for the bit which casts the shadow onto the dial.
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The Collins Street Sundial in the Townhead area of Glasgow. It may seen surprising, but Scotland had amongst the highest number of sundials in the 17th and 18th centuries. This includes obelisk sundials which were unique to Scotland.
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The interior of St Mungo's Church on Parson Street in Glasgow, which was designed by George Goldie and was built in 1841.
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The shadow is that of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 1895 Martyr's School, and you can just make out the outline of one of its distinctive roof vents on the red sandstone of the retreat.
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Saint Mungo's church and retreat on Parson Street in the Townhead area of Glasgow. The church was built in 1841 and the retreat in 1890.
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I've always presumed it represents St Mungo, but I'm in no way certain about this. Whoever it is, he doesn't look like someone you'd want to get on the wrong side of.
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An ecclesiastical mask on St Mungo's Church on Parson Street in the Townhead area of Glasgow. The church was designed by George Goldie, and was originally built in 1841.
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Townhead Interchange, as envisaged in A Highway Plan for Glasgow (1965) #Glasgow #Townhead #motorway #urbanplanning #townplanning
