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Latitude: 55.8461 / 55°50'45"N
Longitude: -4.2587 / 4°15'31"W
OS Eastings: 258677
OS Northings: 663737
OS Grid: NS586637
Mapcode National: GBR 0KS.S2
Mapcode Global: WH3P8.KB85
Plus Code: 9C7QRPWR+CG
Entry Name: Abbotsford Primary School, 131 Abbotsford Place, Glasgow
Listing Name: 129 Abbotsford Place and Pollokshaws Road, School and Janitor's House
Listing Date: 17 June 1986
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 377208
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33490
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: 131 Abbotsford Place, Abbotsford Primary School
ID on this website: 200377208
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Southside Central
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: School building
H and D Barclay. Opened 1879. 2-storey 12-by 8-bay Italianate
ashlar school. Arched doorway in 2 central advanced
pedimented bays. Channelled masonry surrounds door with 2
mask roundels. Ground floor windows roll moulded with carved
cills decorated frieze and cornices. Cornice over ground
floor. 1st floor recessed aproned windows between Doric
pilasters bearing shields. Projecting eaves with mutule
cornice. Slate roof with a glazed light to central hall and 2
stacks. E and W elevations identical. N and S elevations,
8-bay, similar windows grouped 2-4-2.
Interior central hall with 2 stairs and balcony to upper
classrooms.
Janitor's house: Italianate cottage, 1879, 2-storey ashlar.
Dormer heads to 1st floor windows, bargeboards, stack and
swept slate roof.
Heavy cast-iron perimeter railings with 3 small pedimented
ashlar entrances.
The first Board School in Glasgow to be designed on the
Barclay's principle of the Central Hall Plan.
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