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DOUBLE VILLA
‡Unexecuted design, for Mrs Adam & J.H. Robertson, see CAMPHILL
AVENUE
TENEMENTS WITH GLASS-ROOFED STREETS
‡Unexecuted ideal design for tenements, for Glasgow City
Improvement Trustees, 1868
Morning Journal, 17th March 1868; Builder 28th March 1868, p.234;
Brian Edwards & John McKean in S&McK*
The was an ideal scheme prepared for unspecified site off the High
Street, 1068 by 330 feet, as part of rebuilding by City Improvement
Trust. Thomson was one of “six eminent Glasgow architects” consulted
by the Improvement Trustees. No drawings survive to illustrate Thomson's
proposals, which were described in a paper given to the Glasgow
Architectural Society in 1868. These eschewed the conventional pattern
of tenement building to which Thomson, in his commercial practice,
subscribed; instead, “The main feature of the plan is that the spaces
are all open at the ends. There is, instead of a continuous line of
building towards the leading street, a series of detached tenements of
48 ft in length with 16 feet spaces in between. These lead alternately
into streets covered overhead with glass and lanes providing access to
coal and dust carts. Glasgow is notorious for the mortality amongst
children. These covered streets are intended chiefly as play-grounds for
the young... But the warmth which would result from this method of
building would be conducive to the health and comfort of all. As to the
expense, I propose to build the walls of these roofed streets in
nine-inch brickwork...” As to the mortality amongst children, Thomson
was speaking from personal experience as he had lost four between March
1854 and January 1857.
HOUSES
‡Unexecuted design for terrace of houses, 1872
George; McFadzean; ATSN no.12 January 1995
In a his letter to his brother George, 20th September 1872, Thomson
recorded that "We have made plans for a new Terrace at the back of
Clow's range on the same principle as the Gt. Wn. Trc. but with 42 ft
frontages instead of 54 but it remains to be seen whether they can be
built at a profit under the present high rates. If so a Mr. Mellis
wright in Partick will take up the speculation and a son of Davit
Anderson's wants one of the end houses..."
CHURCH
[‡?]Competition design for United Presbyterian congregation,1868
see QUEEN'S PARK CHURCH,
LANGSIDE AVENUE
?Alterations for Dr Cassill
The Sederunt Book in the Glasgow City Archives records for 1876 that
George Thomson was dealing with David Rodger of Murdoch & Rodger
over the balance of account for Dr Cassill's property and the Washington
Hotel; the plans for altering Dr Cassill's property could not have been
carried out for £1,800, the figure stated by Rodger.
BUILDING WITH GALLERIED INTERIOR ON IRON COLUMNS
‡Unexecuted designc.1849
Drawing in Mitchell
This project survives only in an unidentified drawing, watermarked
1849, which depicts a four storey high interior with ornamental gallery
fronts and with the upper two galleries and the roof supported on three
tiers of thin iron columns with extravagant capitals.
CHURCH IN ROMANESQUE STYLE WITH CAMPANILE
‡unexecuted design, 1850s?
Drawing in Mitchell
AA*; Ronald McFadzean in ATSN no.7 June 1993*
Design in round-arched style with a tall asymmetrically sited
campanile, possibly related to the later project for a church at Lenzie,
q.v.
COMBINED SMALL CHURCH AND MANSE, see BALFRON,
HOLM OF BALFRON, Stirlingshire
MONUMENTAL BUILDING
‡Unexecuted design
Elevation drawing in Mitchell
McFadzean*; AA*; McKean*;
Design for an unidentified building type, with long lateral wings and
a raised centre surmounted by a tall dome similar to those placed on the
St Vincent Street and Queen’s Park Churches, qq.v. This drawing may
possibly relate to Thomson's design for the London Albert Memorial, q.v.
Ronald McFadzean recalls a drawing for a similar design but with a
monumental flight of steps in the GSA in c.1950 which has since
disappeared.
VILLA
‡Unexecuted design, 1857?
Drawing in Mitchell
AA*; AA Files 9 Summer 1985*
Design for a picturesquely massed villa in Thomson’s mature style
with a long wall connecting with outbuildings
OBELISK
?‡Drawings in Mitchell, including perspective signed by Geo.
Morrison
AA Files 9 Summer 1985*; Alexander Stoddart in S&McK*
This may relate to the obelisk designed for the 1862 International
Exhibition, q.v. under OBJECTS
TOMBSTONE
?‡Unexecuted design
Drawing in Mitchell
Alexander Stoddart in S&McK*
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