Overnewton School, 52 Lumsden Street And Overnewton Street, Glasgow

John Burnet, dated 1876. Netherlandish Gothic detailed

school. 2 storeys, 9 x 3 unequal bays. Double pile with

recessed S gable and attached tower at E end of N gable.

Snecked rubble. Mainly casement windows with multi-pane

glazing. Battered plinth.

Hoodmoulded entrance to SE at base of stair tower with

lettering above "GIRLS"; 3 round-arched windows to E. Ground

floor raked stringcourse stepped up over N bipartite,

stone-transomed window, 2 similar windows above to SE and E

face of tower, embattled parapet, steeply-hipped, 2 stage

pyramidal slate roof with finial, attached stack.

N SECTION: 2 x 8-bay pile. Plain ground floor windows, raked

string course above. Raised lettering "OVERNEWTON PUBLIC

SCHOOL". 6 central, coped full dormers with acroteria,

flanked by small single-light windows. E return: as main

elevation with hoodmould round-arched in centre framing

sculpted Glasgow coat of arms. Roll-moulded, coped gable with

stack: lettering "SCHOOL BOARD OF GLASGOW". Slate roof.

S section: repeats N section.

W RETURN: double gable as main elevation, single bay linking

section with arched entrance marked "BOYS" Glazed tiled,

cast-iron columned, single storey shelters in playground.

3 x 1-bay caretaker's house to S with half-dormers.

Stepped boundary wall to E attached to N section with arched

entrance marked "GIRLS AND INFANTS".