Pollokshields Burgh Hall
Pollokshields Burgh Hall
LocationGlasgow
Coordinates55°50′20″N 4°17′13″W / 55.83891°N 4.28706°W / 55.83891; -4.28706
Built1890
ArchitectHarry Edward Clifford
Architectural style(s)Scottish Baronial style
Listed Building – Category A
Designated15 December 1970
Reference no.LB33411
Pollokshields Burgh Hall is located in Glasgow council area
Pollokshields Burgh Hall
Shown in Glasgow

The Pollokshields Burgh Hall is a municipal building at the edge of Maxwell Park, Glasgow, Scotland. The burgh hall, which was briefly the headquarters of Pollokshields Burgh Council, is a Category A listed building.[1]

History

The building was commissioned and endowed for future maintenance by the politician, Sir John Stirling Maxwell of Pollok House, as a gift for the people of Pollokshields.[2] The site he selected in Glencairn Drive had formed part of the Old Pollok Estate, which had been home to the Maxwell family for over 700 years.[3]

The burgh hall was designed by Harry Edward Clifford in the Scottish Baronial style[4] and built with dark red sandstone from the Ballochmyle Estate in Ayrshire.[5] A ceremony was held at which Maxwell laid a memorial stone to commemorate the opening of the burgh hall and also the opening of Maxwell Park, which he had also gifted to the local people, on 25 October 1890.[6] The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage facing Glencairn Drive; the main hall, which projected forward was on the left; the right bay featured a gabled porch with a round-headed doorway on the ground floor and a tower above; there was a bartizan on the right hand corner of the tower.[1]

The building was initially used as a masonic meeting place by masonic lodge no. 772[7] and was also briefly used as the headquarters of the independent burgh of Pollokshields until 1891 when the burgh was absorbed into the city of Glasgow in 1891.[2] It was extended in 1935.[1]

After functioning as a day centre for Glasgow Corporation and then, from 1975, for Strathclyde Regional Council, it was deemed surplus to requirements in 1982 and acquired the Pollokshields Burgh Hall Trust for a nominal sum in 1986.[8] Following refurbishment by the trust it reopened for community use in 1997.[8] The lower ground floor was refurbished and converted for conference use with financial support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund in the late 1990s.[9][10] The actress, Keira Knightley, attended her brother's wedding at the hall in April 2011.[11]

Architecture

The dominant external feature of the building is the 60-foot (18 m) high tower while the entrance porch exhibits the Maxwell family coat of arms flanked by two Scottish lions.[5]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Historic Environment Scotland. "70 and 72 Glencairn Drive, Pollokshields Burgh Hall, including lodge and gateway to Maxwell Park (Category A Listed Building) (LB33411)". Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  2. 1 2 "Pollokshields". The Glasgow Story. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "Pollok House: Old Country Houses of the Old Glasgow Gentry (1878)". Glasgow West-end addresses and their occupants. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  4. ↑ "Pollokshields Burgh Hall". Dictionary of Scottish Architects. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  5. 1 2 "Architecture". Pollokshields Burgh Hall. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  6. ↑ "About us". Lodge Pollock Park. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "No.772 on the roll of the Grand Lodge of Scotland". Lodge Pollock. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Pollokshields Burgh Hall". Discover Glasgow. Archived from the original on 4 June 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "Pollokshields Burgh Hall". Pollokshields Heritage. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  10. ↑ "Financial statements for the year ended 31 July 1997". Pollokshields Burgh Hall Trust Limited. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
  11. ↑ "Hollywood star Keira Knightley a bridesmaid at brother's wedding in Glasgow". Daily Record. 25 April 2011. Retrieved 19 April 2020.
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