Description

Designed by Thomas Lennox Watson, 1905. A square-plan, three-storey, nine-bay school designed in a Free Renaissance style on a corner site. Four storeys in height to the rear with a later addition attached to the east elevation. Ashlar construction with rusticated base, snecked stone to the rear elevation. Elevations to Renfrew Street and Garnet Street arranged 3-3-3.

All windows have multi-pane sash and case frames with glazing bars. There are relieving arches above the windows on the ground floor and cornices above the windows on the first floor. There is a cill band course between the first and second floors and an eaves cornice.

Elevation to Renfrew Street: entrance in second and third bays from the east, corniced, banded and inscribed 'INFANTS'. Main front has a central, recessed three-bay section flanked by giant pilasters with a bowed, pilastraded section with five-light windows to the ground and first floors. A lettered frieze between reads: 'GARNETBANK PUBLIC SCHOOL' and a frieze above the first floor reads: 'SCHOOL BOARD OF GLASGOW'. There is a three-light arched and voussoired window breaking through the pediment at the second floor.

Elevation to Garnet Street: projecting three-bay central section with giant square angle piers, a banded ground floor entrance with corniced entry and sidelights. The first floor window openings are plain and the second floor window openings have shaped pediments. Two central piers support the third floor balcony with a cast-iron balustrade in front of a corniced Venetian window with sculpture tympanum. Segmental pediment above. Slim corniced chimneystack rising through the re-entrant angle on the north side.

Plain windows to rear elevation and the roof is covered in slates. There are cast-iron railings with corniced stone piers bounding the site.

Former Janitor's House at no.219 Renfrew Street: a one-and-a-half storey, asymmetrical schoolhouse with a central, pilastered entrance and a segmental sculptured pediment above. All window openings have sash and case frames. There is a two-light window with a stone mullion to the east of the front elevation with a pedimented dormer above and a circular window to the west. The western gable has straight skews and moulded skewputts and is pierced with two, single-light windows. The roof is slated with a corniced axial chimneystack.

Statement of Interest

Statutory address and listed building record revised in 2024. Previously listed as '221 RENFREW STREET, GARNETBANK PRIMARY SCHOOL AND JANITOR'S HOUSE'.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17807432

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