COLLECTION NAME:
Archivision Base to Module 9
Record
Preferred Title:
Martyrs' Public School
Alternate Title:
Martyrs' School
Image View:
East stair, detail
Creator:
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (British architect, 1868-1928); Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh (British architectural firm, 1904-1913)
Location:
site: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Location Note:
Parson Street
GPS:
+55.865363-4.237692
Date:
1895-1898 (creation)
Cultural Context:
British; Scottish (Scots)
Style Period:
Art Nouveau; Glasgow style; Nineteenth century
Work Type 1:
school (building)
Classification:
architecture
Material:
sandstone
Technique:
construction (assembling)
Subjects:
architecture; Education; co-education; interior
Description:
Mackintosh worked with Honeyman & Keppie, (becoming a partner in 1904). Martyrs' School was comissioned in 1895 and is built on the street where Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born. Like many Glasgow board schools, Martyrs? is constructed of red sandstone brought in by rail once the local sandstone quarries became exhausted. The plan conforms to the standard layout, which was governed by the requirement of separate entrances for boys and girls. A top-lit well lights a ground-floor drill hall over which galleries on all sides communicate with the classrooms, which were placed on the outer edges of the building to gain the maximum natural light. Over the hall and staircases exposed wooden rafters and ties are either pinned to the walls by brackets or rest on corbels. Externally the clash of stereotyped and new forms may reflect compromises between Keppie and Mackintosh. Of greater interest are the groups of windows set on a continuous bracketed sill, a concept that is neither unique nor new but is of interest wh
Collection:
Archivision Addition Module Five
Identifier:
1A1-MCR-MPS-C4
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Martyrs' Public School
