Somewhat surprisingly, despite being a strongly Christian society, most architectural sculptures in Victorian Glasgow were instead inspired by other cultures, such as ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Persian, and even northern European pagan mythologies. The exact reasons for this are unclear.
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The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins on the 1890s Standard Buildings on Gordon Street in central Glasgow. Attributed by James Young, this is one of the few achitectural sculptures with an overtly biblical inspiration in the city's Victorian financial district.
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A branded Victorian or Edwardian access cover on Minvera Street in the Finnieston area of Glasgow. The names featured on such covers are usually either a local plumber or the foundry which made it.
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This was the site that would, in the 1870s, become home to the Glasgow Stock Exchange (whose magnificent Venetian Gothic building atill stands there to this day). By then, the Globe Insurance Company has mergerd to form the Liverpool, London and Globe Insurance Company, who would go on to build their own magnificent building just a short distance away on the corner of St Vincent Street and Hope Street.
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A rather stylish 1850s Classical townhouse, with Renaissance style detailing, on Buckingham Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by J.T. Rochead, it was first occupied by Robert Buchanan, a commission merchant, ship agent, and agent for the Globe Insurance Company, with an office at 157 Buchanan Street.
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This was needed as in horse-drawn vehicles, the steering is essentially in the middle,and behind the 'engine' (i.e. the horses), making it much harder to turn tightly as the cart has a tendancy to cut the corner after the horses have turned into it.
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A surviving metal kerb-protector on the corner of Wellington Street and St Vincent Lane in central Glasgow. This was designed to stop the kerbstones being worn away by the wheels of carts and also to help guide them into the narrow lanes between the buildings, so that they didn't damage them.
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This was done so that they didn't interfere with the view from the equally grand townhouses further up the hill. From there, the only evidence that stables are there are the chimneys, which are hidden in the piers of the fence lining the edge of the grass (right).
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