This Is My GlasgowThe Tontine Heads behind the Provand's Lordship in Glasgow. Dating from the 19th Century, these heads originally adorned keystones of arches in the Tontine Hotel at Glasgow Cross.
The sculpture was designed by Jack Sloan and was installed in 1995 along with a number of similar figures representing different people connected to the history of the Provand's Lordship and the surrounding area, including Bishop Muirhead, Mary Queen of Scots, Robert Foulis and Joan Eardley.
A sculpture of William Bryson, looking rather like a New Romantic, on the railings around the St Nicholas Gardens behind the Provand's Lordship in Glasgow. Glasgow's oldest house, the Provand's Lordship was built in 1471 by Andrew Muirhead, the then Bishop of Glasgow. By the 1670s, it was owned by William Bryson, a wealthy tailor and cloth merchant, who added a western extension, and whose initials can still be seen on the sundial mounted on it.
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Grahame Gardner 🏴I love this minimalist Glasgow CofA in the garden at Provand's Lordship.
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The crow-stepped gables of Provand's Lordship on Castle Street in Glasgow. Built by Andrew Muirhead, the Bishop of Glasgow, in 1471 as part of the Saint Nicholas's Hospital, it's one of the few buildings in the city to survive from the Medieval period (or there abouts).
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Stoneware flagon from the Springfield Botanical Works on display in the Provand's Lordship in Glasgow. So far, I haven't been able to track down what the Springfield Botanical Works was.
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Six of the most decorative Tontine Heads. Dating from the 19th Century, these heads originally adorned keystones of arches in the Tontine Hotel at Glasgow Cross. They are now housed in the Provand's Lordship, Glasgow's oldest house, on Castle Street.
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Of course, in Glasgow, there's another way of separating the two: A road cone fits neatly on the head of a statue, but not necessarily on a sculpture!
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Six of the most decorative Tontine Heads. Dating from the 19th Century, these heads originally adorned keystones of arches in the Tontine Hotel at Glasgow Cross. They're now housed in the Provand's Lordship, Glasgow's oldest house, on Castle Street.
The Provand's Lordship on Castle Street in Glasgow. Built by Andrew Muirhead, the Bishop of Glasgow, in 1471 as part of the Saint Nicholas's Hospital, it's one of the few buildings in the city to survive from the Medieval period.
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