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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdomen_US
dc.coverage.temporal1895-1898 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorHoneyman, Keppie & Mackintoshen_US
dc.creatorMackintosh, Charles Rennieen_US
dc.date1895-1898en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-26T20:46:13Z
dc.date.available2012-12-26T20:46:13Z
dc.date.issued1895-1898en_US
dc.identifier180350en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 1997en_US
dc.descriptionEast stair, truss detail; Mackintosh worked with Honeyman & Keppie, (becoming a partner in 1904). Martyrs' School was comissioned in 1895 and is built on the street where Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born. Like many Glasgow board schools, Martyrs’ is constructed of red sandstone brought in by rail once the local sandstone quarries became exhausted. The plan conforms to the standard layout, which was governed by the requirement of separate entrances for boys and girls. A top-lit well lights a ground-floor drill hall over which galleries on all sides communicate with the classrooms, which were placed on the outer edges of the building to gain the maximum natural light. Over the hall and staircases exposed wooden rafters and ties are either pinned to the walls by brackets or rest on corbels. Externally the clash of stereotyped and new forms may reflect compromises between Keppie and Mackintosh. Of greater interest are the groups of windows set on a continuous bracketed sill, a concept that is neither unique nor new but is of interest when set against the individual verticality of a staircase pierced by a thermal window below oversailing rafter ends. Now an arts centre run by Glasgow Museums. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordartonline.com/ (accessed 7/11/2010)en_US
dc.format.mediumsandstoneen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectarchitectureen_US
dc.subjectEducationen_US
dc.subjectco-educationen_US
dc.subjectNineteenth centuryen_US
dc.subjectGlasgow styleen_US
dc.subjectArt Nouveauen_US
dc.titleMartyrs' Public Schoolen_US
dc.title.alternativeMartyrs' Schoolen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode1A1-MCR-MPS-C11en_US
dc.contributor.displayCharles Rennie Mackintosh (British architect, 1868-1928); Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh (British architectural firm, 1904-1913)en_US


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