Notre Dame School, 160 Observatory Road, Glasgow

Thomas S Cordiner, architect; designed 1939, resumed 1949

completed 1953. Brick, concrete and ashlar school with

pantiled roof. Pivot metal framed windows with small lying

pane glazing. Long 2-storey S range with 2 projecting wings

to N, gymnasium to SE.

Symmetrical entrance front to S. 2 5-bay ranges flank

3-storey entrance bay, latter with advanced outer walls faced

to inside with large nailhead ashlar masonry. Doorway in

ashlar surround with carved panels; tripartite door with

glazed sidelights. 5-light window to 1st with carved panels

of Arts and Sciences. 2nd floor with full-width window to

library.

Concrete band courses to all cills and lintels, deeply

overhanging concrete eaves; modernist fleche with cross.

To left, single storey kitchen wing; to right, single storey

gymnasium of 6-bays with windows set in ashlar panels.

2 projecting wings to N; that to E with hall, that to W with

refectory at ground, classrooms above. Ashlar bas-relief

panels to N wings. Sympathetic brick additions (circa 1979)

to NE, freestanding single storey blocks to rear courtyard.

Interior with most original features surviving; tiles to dado

level, floor tiles, some wood panelling.

Stairs with Mackintosh style baluster-screen.

Paved terraces to N and W with boundary and retaining walls

of brick with concrete coping. Shrine in brick with statue

of Virgin and Child to N.

Brick gatepiers with concrete coping, cast-iron gates.