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Anderston Primary School (1973), a non-denominational state school, is located on Port Street in Anderston. [29] St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School (1962) is situated on Perth Street in Anderston. [30] Glasgow Gaelic School (1999) is a Gaelic language nursery, primary and secondary school located in Berkeley Street. [31]
A typical Glasgow tenement block. Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has several distinct styles of residential buildings.Building styles reflect historical trends, such as rapid population growth in the 18th and 19th centuries, deindustrialisation and growing poverty in the late 20th century, and civic rebound in the 21st century.
The building consists of a 2-storey square-plan church with prominent pyramidal roof, with over 20 rooms. The foundation stone was laid in 1966, with a service of commemoration in the now demolished St Mark's-Lancefield Church. The building was completed in 1968. [2] Interior of the sanctuary
60-70 Gordon Street, Glasgow. Forsyth moved to Glasgow in 1862 where he set up business selling socks, gloves and shirts on Renfield Street, opposite Central Station. The business was highly successful, and he assembled the remaining buildings on the corner of Renfield Street and Gordon Street.
The Argyle Building is a mid-rise residential building in the Anderston district within the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.Started in 2005 and completed in 2008, it is among the highest buildings currently standing within the city's central area and occupies a prominent spot next to the Kingston Bridge and the M8 motorway.
The Tolbooth Steeple dominates Glasgow Cross and marks the east side of the Merchant City.. To the east is the commercial and residential district of Merchant City.The Merchant City was formerly the residential district of the wealthy city merchants in the 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly the Tobacco Lords from whom many of the streets take their name.
The church of Govan was a prebend of Glasgow. It was dedicated to St Constantine, who had been buried at Govan. On 13 July 1577, the teinds of Govan were granted to the University of Glasgow, and the Principal of the University ex officio was appointed minister of the parish.
Sandyford is an area of Glasgow, Scotland.It is north of the River Clyde and forms part of the western periphery of the city centre. Formerly the name of a ward under Glasgow Town Council in the first part of the 20th century, [a] it is within a continuous area of fairly dense urban development bordering several other neighbourhoods whose mutual boundaries have blurred over time, and is ...