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Dixon Halls

Dixon Halls, formerly Crosshill and Govanhill Burgh Hall, is a daycare centre for elderly people and Category B listed building on Cathcart Road, Glasgow, Scotland. History Following significant population growth, largely associated with their development as residential suburbs of Glasgow, Crosshill in Renfrewshire and Govanhill in Lanarkshire became police burghs in 1871 and 1877 respectively. In this context the proprietor of Govan Iron Works, William Smith Dixon, made an offer to pay for a new burgh hall to serve both burghs. The burgh leaders selected a site on Cathcart Road which was located on the border between the counties of Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire. The new building was designed by the Glasgow architect, Frank Stirrat, in the Scottish baronial style, built in ashlar stone at a cost of £10,000 and was officially opened by the provost of Crosshill, George Browne, and the provost of Govanhill, Thomas Smith, on 12 December 1879. The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of five bays facing the corner of what is now Dixon Avenue and Cathcart Road. The central section of three bays was formed by a loggia with Ionic order columns and architraves on the ground floor, a large mullioned and transomed window on the first floor and a stepped gable above. The left-hand bay, which was slightly projected forward, was fenestrated by a tall leaded window with a hood mould on the ground floor; at first floor level there was a wall, which was recessed, bearing a panel. The right-hand bay was formed by a four-stage tower: there was a tall leaded window with a hood mould in the second stage, a lancet window in the third stage and a panel flanked by bartizans in the fourth stage. The tower was surmounted by a stepped gable, a spire and a weather vane. Internally, the principal rooms were the shared assembly room on the first floor, and the courtrooms on the ground floor, one for each of Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire. The two courtrooms, both of which had their own external access, were located in their respective counties in accordance with the legislative requirements in place at the time. Shortly after it opened, the building was renamed Dixon Halls, in honour of the businessman who had provided the funding. The building continued to serve as the meeting place of the two burghs until they were both annexed by the City of Glasgow in 1891. In accordance with a requirement stipulated by Dixon, when he provided the funding, the City of Glasgow agreed to donate £7,000 to the Glasgow Victoria Infirmary to recompense the burghs for the loss of their independence. The Dixon Community, a charity established in 1972 to support elderly people and their carers, took over management of the building, refurbished the assembly hall and converted the structure into a daycare centre for elderly people, to a design by Michael and Sue Thornley, in 1978. See also List of listed buildings in Glasgow/3 References
Govanhill Trinity Church

Govanhill Trinity Church is a 19th-century church building in the Govanhill area of Glasgow. The church closed down in 2015, but it is still owned by the Church of Scotland. History The church building was founded as the Govanhill United Presbyterian Church. It was built between 1878 and 1880 in a geometric Neo-Gothic style designed by Robert Baldie. The church included a nave and gable-fronted Aisles. An organ by Abbott and Smith was installed in 1912. Upon union with the Church of Scotland in 1929, the church was renamed Govanhill West Church, to distinguish it from Govanhill South Church. Both congregations united in 1952 to form Govanhill Parish Church using the church building in Daisy Street. In 1989, the congregation of the now demolished Candlish Polmadie Church (formerly Candlish Memorial Church), united with the Govanhill congregation forming Govanhill Trinity Parish Church. The Reverend Tomas Bisek, a Czech clergyman ordained in the Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, became the first minister of Govanhill Trinity. In January 2014, the Presbytery of Glasgow approved a two-year guardianship relationship between Govanhill Trinity and Queen's Park entered into a two-year guardianship relationship. The guardianship proposed that upon the end of December 2015, the two congregations would unite and worship would continue at the Queen's Park Church building. This came into being in 2015, when Queen's Park Govanhill Parish was formed. Since 2015, the former Govanhill Trinity Church building has been used as a community centre and canteen operated by the Church of Scotland. References External links Media related to Govanhill Church Of Scotland at Wikimedia Commons
Belhaven Hill School

Belhaven Hill School is an independent, co-educational preparatory school for boarding and day pupils aged 4 to 13 in Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland. The current headmaster is Olly Langton. Belhaven Hill School's history begins in 1923, when it was founded by Brian Simms. The main building was originally an old private house, and the school operated initially with just a handful of pupils and two staff — as of 2023, it had 143 pupils. The school's grounds stretch to 20 acres School expansion Building on the expertise gathered over several years since the start of the Form 6 class (for 7 year olds), the school has extended education to 5 and 6 year olds (the pre-prep). The pre-prep consists of thirty children, with ten in each year group. Notable alumni Hugh Buchanan (artist), Scottish artist James Chichester, Earl of Belfast (born 1990), aristocrat Alexander Elphinstone, 19th Lord Elphinstone (born 1980), aristocrat. Rear Admiral Sir Ronald Forrest (1923–2005), senior Royal Navy officer. Andro Linklater (1944–2013), writer and historian. Magnus Linklater (born 1942), journalist Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914–2003), British historian. Vice Admiral Sir George Vallings (1932–2007), senior Royal Navy officer. George Baillie-Hamilton, 14th Earl of Haddington (born 1985) References External links Belhaven Hill School Inspection of Standards and Quality in Belhaven Hill School Dunbar
Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre

The Gordon Aikman Lecture Theatre is a category B listed performing arts and lecture theatre located in the historic George Square in Edinburgh. Primarily operated as a lecture theatre for the University of Edinburgh, it is also used for general theatre performances, as well as being a designated Edinburgh Fringe Festival venue. In 2018 the university changed the name of the theatre—previously known as George Square Theatre—in memory of Gordon Aikman, a graduate of the university's business school who raised more than £500,000 for research funding into motor neurone disease. Construction of the modernist style theatre was completed in 1970, and it opened to the general public the same year. Its seating capacity of 481 makes it the university's largest lecture facility and an asset to the busy Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Since 2011, and while a venue for the Fringe, the theatre was under the branding of Assembly Group, an events promotion company responsible for the operation of Edinburgh's main Fringe venues, which had moved from their original base at George Street in the city. Subsequently, during the Festival the theatre was branded Assembly George Square Theatre. The theatre's location has allowed its use and popularity to increase, being situated near the Quartermile district development in the grounds of the old Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, along with the building and development of new University of Edinburgh facilities. The theatre can also be seen and accessed from the Meadows, a large park popular with tourists and students. Due to the building's striking standalone appearance, it has been a popular location for filming and productions, with the facade often changed to suit different purposes. References
Kinghorn Town Hall

Kinghorn Town Hall is a municipal building in St Leonard's Place, Kinghorn, Fife, Scotland. The structure, which is used as holiday accommodation for tourists, is a Category B listed building. History The first municipal building in Kinghorn was a small Saxon or Norman church, St Leonard's Chapel, which was converted into a town house and prison in the 16th century. Several Covenanters were incarcerated in the building, which was described as "horrible", during the Killing Time in the early 1680s. It served as the regular meeting place of the burgh council and became known as St Leonard's Tower, but was struck by lightning in the early 19th century and was subsequently demolished. The current building was designed by Thomas Hamilton in the Tudor Revival style, built in ashlar stone and was completed in 1830. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage of three bays facing into St Leonard's Place. The central bay was formed by a three-stage tower which featured a square headed doorway with a hood mould in the first stage, a tri-partite mullioned and transomed window in the second stage and a corbelled clock face in the third stage. The centre bay was flanked by full-height buttresses surmounted by pinnacles. The outer bays were fenestrated by small square windows with hood moulds on the ground floor and bi-partite mullioned and transomed windows on the first floor. There was also a single-storey wing extending to the northeast. At roof level there was a parapet with corbelled turrets at the outer corners. Internally, the principal rooms were the barrel vaulted prison cells and the guardroom on the ground floor, and the courtroom on the first floor. The courtroom, which also served as a council chamber, featured an ogee-headed fireplace and contained some fine decorative plasterwork. In the mid-20th century, offices for the town clerk and other council officers were established in Baliol Street. The town hall continued to serve as the meeting place of the burgh council for much of the 20th century, but ceased to be the local seat of government after the enlarged Kirkcaldy District Council was formed in 1975. The building was acquired by the Fife Historic Buildings Trust in anticipation of a major programme of restoration works, which was managed by the trust and was completed in 2009. The upper floors of the building were converted into holiday apartments for tourists, while the ground floor became the head office of the Fife Historic Buildings Trust in December 2013. See also List of listed buildings in Kinghorn, Fife References
2–13 Clairmont Gardens

Unter der Adresse 2–13 Clairmont Gardens in der schottischen Stadt Glasgow befindet sich eine Wohngebäudezeile. 1970 wurde das Bauwerk in die schottischen Denkmallisten in der Kategorie B aufgenommen. 1994 wurde das Haus Nr. 4 aus dem Ensemble exkludiert und separat als Bauwerk der höchsten Denkmalkategorie A eingestuft. Haus Nr. 1 entstammt einem Neubau aus dem Jahre 1965 und ist nicht Teil des Ensembles. Beschreibung Die dreistöckige Gebäudezeile nimmt das gesamte Karree zwischen Clairmont Gardens und Somerset Place Mews sowie der Elderslie und der Clifton Street ein. Sie entstand um 1857. Die klassizistisch ausgestalteten Gebäude sind jeweils drei Achsen weit. Das Mauerwerk aus polierten Quadersteinen ist im Bereich des Erdgeschosses rustiziert. Die über kurze Vortreppen mit gusseisernen Balustraden zugänglichen Eingangsbereiche sind mit Seitenfenstern gestaltet und durch auf ornamentierten Konsolen ruhenden gekehlten Gesimsen verdacht. Gekehlte Fenstergesimse gliedern die Fassade horizontal. Im ersten Obergeschoss kragen links abgekantete Erker aus. Ornamentierte Gesimse auf Konsolen verdachen im ersten Obergeschoss die Fenster oberhalb des Eingänge. Das abschließende Kranzgesims ist mit Akroterien gestaltet. Die aufsitzenden Walmdächer sind mit Schiefer eingedeckt. Die höhere Einstufung von Haus Nr. 4 resultiert aus der vergleichsweise detaillierten Innenraumgestaltung. Hierzu zählen ein Vestibül mit Säulen und Kuppel, verschiedene Spiegelflächen, die gusseiserne Brüstung der Haupttreppe sowie ein aufwändig gestalteter offener Marmorkamin. Einzelnachweise Weblinks Eintrag zu Glasgow, Clairmont Gardens auf trove.scot, der Datenbank von Historic Environment Scotland (englisch)
Birdsmill Viaduct

The Birdsmill Viaduct is a railway viaduct on the boundary between West Lothian and Edinburgh in Scotland. The viaduct carries the Edinburgh-Bathgate line across the River Almond. The viaduct was designed by engineer John Miller and completed in 1849. It has 8 stone arches and a length of 111 metres (364 ft) and a height of 15.2 metres (50 ft). It was designated a category B listed building in 1971. See also List of railway bridges and viaducts in the United Kingdom References External links Media related to Birdsmill Railway Viaduct at Wikimedia Commons Birdsmill Viaduct, RailScot
Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church

Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church is a Parish church of the Church of Scotland that covers the Finnieston, Kelvinhaugh and Yorkhill areas of Glasgow, Scotland. History The church was built in the Neo-Gothic style between 1854 and 1856, on designs by John Thomas Emmett, but then completed by John Honeyman. It was established as a chapel of ease for the south-west parish of the Barony Church, and became Sandyford Parish Church of the Church of Scotland in 1864. In 1938, it united with Henderson Memorial to form Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church. Works of Art The church includes a number of stained glass windows in geometric/floral patterns made by Ballantine & Allan in 1857. The three pictorial west windows are the work of William Wailes, and which were made between 1859 and 1860. The stained glass windows were restored between 2008 and 2009. A WWI memorial was installed in the church in 1922 remembering the 20 men from the parish who died in the war. The exterior stonework of the church was restored in 2000, and an interior refurbishment was carried out in 2004. References
St Columba's Catholic Church, Edinburgh

St Columba's Church, Edinburgh is a Roman Catholic church located in the Newington district of Edinburgh, Scotland. History The foundation stone of the church was laid on Easter Tuesday 23 April 1889 and it was officially opened on Sunday 17 November of that year. The building was designed in the classic Renaissance style by Rhoderic Cameron. Notable features include a collection of statues in the window niches. The presbytery and hall were added by Reginald Fairlie, 1927. It is a Category B listed building. A two-manual pipe organ by Matthew Copley was installed in 1997. Parish organisation From 2017 the parishes in Edinburgh were organised into clusters to better coordinate their resources. St Columba's is one of four parishes in Cluster 4 along with St Peter's, Sacred Heart and St Mark's. The Edinburgh Group of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham meet in St Columba's. References External links St Columba's Church
Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court

Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court, formerly known as County Buildings, is a judicial building on Whytescauseway in Kirkcaldy in Scotland. The building, which continues to operate a courthouse, is a Category B listed building. History Until the late 19th century, court hearings were held in the old townhouse and jail at the junction of High Street and Tolbooth Street which was completed in 1826. After finding this arrangement unsatisfactory, court officials decided to commission a dedicated courthouse: the site they selected was on the south side of Whytescauseway. The new building was designed by James Ross Gillespie in the Scottish baronial style, built in rubble masonry at a cost of £9,000 and was officially opened by Sheriff Aeneas Mackay on 21 May 1894. After it opened, it was initially known as "County Buildings". The design involved an asymmetrical main frontage of three bays facing onto Whytescauseway. The centre bay featured a three-stage tower: there was a round headed doorway with voussoirs and a keystone in the first stage, a mullioned and transomed window in the second stage and a mullioned window with a Diocletian window above in the third stage, all surmounted by a balustrade. To the right of the centre bay there was a four-stage octagonal turret, which was projected forward from the upper floors of the building: there a small casement window in the first stage, a series of lancet windows in the second stage, blind walls with corner colonettes in the third stage, and a series of small windows in the fourth stage, all surmounted by a conical roof and a weather vane. The left-hand bay, which was hexagon-shaped, was fenestrated by sash windows on both floors and surmounted by a pediment with a hexagon-shaped roof behind. The right-hand bay was fenestrated by a pair of sash windows on the ground floor and by a nine-pane window on the first floor, all surmounted by a stepped gable and a finial. Internally, the principal room was a double-height courtroom on the first floor, behind the nine-pane window. A large extension, with a blind canted wall on the left, a round headed doorway in the centre and a full-height round headed atrium to the right, was added to the east of the main building in 1982. An annexe to the sheriff court, incorporating two new criminal courtrooms as well as a new custody suite, was opened in the former police station on St. Brycedale Avenue on 29 July 2020. The building on Whytescauseway remains the main venue for hearings of the Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court. See also List of listed buildings in Kirkcaldy, Fife References
Tenterfield House

Tenterfield House is a category B listed building in Dunbar Road, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland. It was built in the 18th century as a two-storey private residence. A three-story wing with tower was added circa 1860. The house was used as a Christie Home for orphans until 1950, then a local authority children's home until 1992. It was converted into apartments in 1995. The house was once owned by Sir Stuart Donaldson, the first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales, Australia, who in the mid nineteenth century gave its name to his property, Tenterfield Station, in New South Wales and thus to the town of Tenterfield, and through that to the Tenterfield Oration, the speech which led ultimately to the federation of Australia. The building was given category B listed status in December 1977, affording it legal protection from unauthorised alteration from demolition. The adjacent Tenterfield Cottage was destroyed by fire in July 2011. It was empty and proposed for demolition at the time. The name "Tenterfield" refers to a tenter field. References Further reading Irvine, Margaret. Tenterfield: My Happy Childhood In Care. Fledgling Press. ISBN 9781905916269. External links Agent's advert for an apartment in Tenterfield House includes images of exterior and interior Agent's advert for another apartment in Tenterfield House
St Mary's Star of the Sea Church, Leith

St Mary Star of the Sea (Leith) Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is situated on Constitution Street in the Leith district and staffed by the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. The church was designed in 1854 by the architects E.W. Pugin and Joseph Hansom in the Gothic style. It is a Category B listed building. The Church has over 20 stained glass windows, and one of the side altars is dedicated to Mary Star of the Sea, the patron saint of Leith since the 12th Century. Archaeology and history Archaeological work carried out in advance of the construction of a new church hall in 2004 found the remains of the front of Balmerino House. That house was built in 1631 by John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, and sold to Lord Balmerino in 1643. It remained in the Balmerino family until 1746 when the fifth Lord Balmerino died and then the Sixth Lord was executed for his part in the failed Jacobite rebellion. The house then changed hands several time until the Church purchased it in 1848. St Mary's Star of the Sea was built in 1853 and Balmerino House was finally demolished in the 1970s. There is some conflict over the date it was built - the church website says it was designed in 1854 but the historical records in Canmore state that it was opened in 1854. The archaeologists also found a small burial ground which predated the house. The human remains consisted of six adult males and date to between the early 16th and mid 17th centuries but before the house was built. It is thought that they may be part of the edge of the burial grounds from the South Leith parish church. The earliest feature uncovered on the site was a well containing 13th to 14th-century pottery. Of importance to the history of clay tobacco pipe manufacture in Scotland was a small assemblage of clay-pipe wasters and kiln waste that were found and dated to around 1630–40. Later excavations in 2006 found more remains of the Balmerio House. When the church was built it had no chancel, no north aisle and was orientated to the west. The north aisle was added in 1900 and the chancel in 1912, at that time the present west entrance was made. Parish organisation From 2017 the many parishes in Edinburgh have been organised into clusters to better coordinate their resources. St. Mary's is one of four parishes in Cluster 5 along with Holy Cross, St. Margaret Mary's and St. Margaret (DM). The parish is part of the Oblate Centre of Mission Edinburgh which also includes St John Olgilvie's Church in Wester Hailes and the priests of both parishes. Images See also Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh References External links Official website
Saint Mary's Star of the Sea

Saint Mary's Star of the Sea är en romersk-katolsk kyrkobyggnad i Edinburgh i Skottland. Den är helgad åt Jungfru Maria och särskilt åt hennes roll som Havets stjärna (latin: Stella maris), det vill säga de sjöfarandes beskyddarinna. Kyrkan är belägen i distriktet Leith och förestås av Oblatfäderna. Kyrkan är sedan år 1970 byggnadsminne. Källor ”St Mary Star Of The Sea RC Church, 106 Constitution Street, Leith, Edinburgh – A Category B Listed Building in Leith, Edinburgh” (på engelska). British Listed Buildings. Arkiverad från originalet den 16 augusti 2022. https://archive.ph/pEBKd. Läst 16 augusti 2022. Externa länkar Wikimedia Commons har media som rör Saint Mary's Star of the Sea.