Former County Buildings or Court Houses, Glasgow

            By Clarke and Bell (Edinburgh), 1842-4, with N section in 1871, and re-fronted in 1892.  Neo-Greek, 3-storey public buildings.  Ashlar, channelled to ground 1st floor windows mainly with consoled cornices, some pilastered window reveals at ground and in doors now altered to windows.  Corinthian hexastyle portico to Ingram Street with central door and 4 windows in plinth, partly re-using old materials.  Centre section originally Merchants' House. Main front to Hutcheson Street, incorporating Corinthian colonnade, rising through 1st and 2nd floors and flanked by pilastered bays. 

Won by Clarke and Bell in a competition of 1841. The S part cost £56,000 and the Merchants' House £10,300 in 1888.  When the City Chambers opened, the building was reserved for the courts alone.

Taken in: United Kingdom / Scotland / Glasgow / Trongate (show map)

Taken on: January 8, 2019

Tags:

Glasgow

Clarke and Bell

XF 14/2.8

Fujifilm X-Pro2 « less

Sets appears in: • Glasgow City Centre

Groups appears in: • Architecture • Architecture and Buildings more » • Architecture Directory • Pediments & Gables • BEST Architecture • RTC - Round the Corner « less

Camera: Fujifilm X-Pro2, f/4.0, 1/140 sec, 14mm (=21mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Fujifilm X-Pro2
Lens:	XF14mmF2.8 R
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	0.007 sec (1/140)
Focal Length:	14mm (35mm equivalent: 21mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Elements 14.0 (Macintosh)
Show full info

Stats: 905 views

go back

close tools panel

Badge creator

Use Flickriver Badge Creator to create a badge linking to your photos, your group or any other Flickriver view.

You can place your badge on your Flickr profile, Blog or Website.

Add to your iGoogle or Netvibes page

Flickriver widget for iGoogle or Netvibes can display almost any Flickriver view - most interesting today, by user, by group, by tag etc. Once added to your personalized homepage, just edit widget settings to select your desired view.

Clickr on one of the buttons below to install:

Embed on your Web site

To embed this view, Copy and Paste the following HTML code:

Black background (preview):

White background (preview):

Firefox and Chrome addons

Adds a 'Flickriver' button to your browser. While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on this button to open the same view on Flickriver.

Install in Firefox
Install in Chrome

Search plugin

Add 'Search on Flickriver' to your browser's search box. Works with Firefox and Internet Explorer. Install search plugin

"View on Flickriver" Greasemonkey script

A Greasemonkey script that adds Flickriver links to various Flickr photo pages - user photos, favorites, pools etc, allowing to quickly open the corresponding Flickriver view.

Also, allows quickly viewing any Flickr photo on black background in large size.

Install "View on Flickriver" script

Bookmarklet

While viewing any Flickr photos page, click on the bookmarklet to open the same view on Flickriver.

To install: drag and drop the following link to your Bookmarks toolbar.
IE users - add the link to your Favorites under the Links folder