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Tent Hall, 21 Steel Street, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Calton, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8548 / 55°51'17"N

Longitude: -4.2446 / 4°14'40"W

OS Eastings: 259591

OS Northings: 664673

OS Grid: NS595646

Mapcode National: GBR 0NN.MZ

Mapcode Global: WH3P8.R3YH

Plus Code: 9C7QVQ34+W5

Entry Name: Tent Hall, 21 Steel Street, Glasgow

Listing Name: 20 Turnbull Street, 21 Steel Street, Tent Hall

Listing Date: 5 September 1979

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 375716

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB32791

Building Class: Cultural

Also known as: 21 Steel Street, Tent Hall

ID on this website: 200375716

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: Calton

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

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Description

1876. Late Gothic/Early Renaissance. Large meeting hall and associated rooms. Snecked ashlar with polished dressings.

Symmetrical facade to Turnbull Street: shallow projecting, wide central bay, outer flanking bays each with depressed arch-headed doors under rounded mouldings and 1 window above. Wide bay: 5 single lights at ground, 1 large 3 light window in shallow corbelled projection above, capped with blind balustrade. Corbelled square turrets at angles.

Crowstepped gable.

Steel Street: 7 bays, bipartites to ground, triple lights to gallery the central light pointed in end bays which have crowstepped gables.

Central door and crowstepped chimney gablet with date 1876. Slate roof.

INTERIOR: Large galleried hall, arcade of iron shafts at the sides with haunched flat arches. Freize with shields and corbels bearing ribs of inserted ceiling. Dentil cornice.

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