29th June: Glasgow–Rennie Mackintosh

Scotland Street Primary School was designed in 1903 and built during 1904 to 1906,  one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's last commissions in Glasgow.

The toilet blocks are outside

The rear

The red sandstone facade is broken up by squares of coloured glass and the stylised Tree of Life motif

 

The caretaker’s house is also stylish

The school closed in 1979.  It is now a museum.  Cilla Black visited it before it closed.

His School of Art is very much open

No inside photos….

but this is the library

Exhibition space

Top floor corridor

Committee room