Listed Building

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Address/Name of Site

BRIDGETON CROSS, SHELTERLB33818

Status: Designated

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Summary

Category
A
Date Added
16/03/1993
Supplementary Information Updated
20/01/2017
Local Authority
Glasgow
Planning Authority
Glasgow
Burgh
Glasgow
NGR
NS 60701 64000
Coordinates
260701, 664000

Description

George Smith & Co, Sun Foundry, 1874. Important prominent decagonal cast iron open shelter with ornate decoration, situated at large road junction with distinctive red fish scale tiled roof and 2-stage cupola with clock. Overhanging canopy with cornice. Fluted Corinthian columns.

Columns between round-arched bays with decorative filigree iron-work to spandrels and frieze. 4 bays with decorative brackets. Interior with central column and decorative iron brackets to roof.

2-stage cupola with clock at 2nd stage. Ogee roof above and surmounted by metal finial.

Statement of Special Interest

This elaborately decorated and finely detailed cast iron shelter forms a major focal point for the East End of Glasgow. Situated in the centre of a 7-way road junction, it is an important and crucial landmark. The decoration is particularly fine and the cupola is a distinctive addition, adding a sense of grandeur. It is an excellent and rare example of this type of street furniture.

The shelter is known locally as "The Umbrella" and it was gifted to the city by the foundry to provide shelter and to be a covered meeting place for the people of the area. Recently restored, it now forms a colourful and eye-catching focal point.

George Smith & Co Ltd, Sun Foundry, was founded in 1858. They were one of a number of internationally renowned iron foundries to come out of Scotland.

List description revised as part of the Glasgow East End listing review, 2010.

References

Bibliography

2nd Edition Ordnance Survey Map Lanarkshire (1899). Williamson, Riches and Higgs Buildings of Scotland, Glasgow (1990), p466. Aileen Smart, Villages of Glasgow, Volume 1, 1998 p31. Information from www.scottishironwork.org (accessed 29-07-10). Information from www.theglasgowstory.com (accessed 29-07-10).

About Listed Buildings

Historic Environment Scotland is responsible for designating sites and places at the national level. These designations are Scheduled monuments, Listed buildings, Inventory of gardens and designed landscapes and Inventory of historic battlefields.

We make recommendations to the Scottish Government about historic marine protected areas, and the Scottish Ministers decide whether to designate.

Listing is the process that identifies, designates and provides statutory protection for buildings of special architectural or historic interest as set out in the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) (Scotland) Act 1997.

We list buildings which are found to be of special architectural or historic interest using the selection guidance published in Designation Policy and Selection Guidance (2019)

Listed building records provide an indication of the special architectural or historic interest of the listed building which has been identified by its statutory address. The description and additional information provided are supplementary and have no legal weight.

These records are not definitive historical accounts or a complete description of the building(s). If part of a building is not described it does not mean it is not listed. The format of the listed building record has changed over time. Earlier records may be brief and some information will not have been recorded.

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