St Andrew's Halls, Granville Street, Glasgow

St Andrew's Halls, located on Granville Street in Glasgow, was designed by James Sellars and constructed between 1873 and 1877, with its interior later reconstructed. The building features sculptures by John Mossman on the first floor and William Mossman on the ground floor. It showcases Schinkelesque Greek classical architecture and stands four storeys tall, with 24 bays facing Granville Street and three return bays on Berkeley Street and Kent Road.

The exterior is symmetrical and made of polished ashlar, with a banded design at the ground floor. The central entrance consists of a three-bay arrangement with a continuous lugged projecting architraved doorpiece surrounded by paterae and stylised anthemion acroters. There are two atlantes in antis and sculpted relieving pilasters, along with three doorways featuring outer panelled doors and carved timber fanlights. Inside, the vestibule is pilastered and corniced, adorned with an anthemion frieze.

The ground floor has four bold, full-height dividing piers and a plinth that is recessed in the central bays, creating a podium for cast-iron lamp standards. The ground floor projects forward to form giant pedestals for four sculpted figure groups, with plain windows in deep embrasures and a plain entablature featuring a projecting cornice.

On the first floor, a giant order of Greek Ionic fluted columns spans the full width of the building, arranged in a 5-9-5 bay configuration with anthemion detail on the necking and a plain entablature. The central bays are deeply recessed, and there are 19 pilastered windows on this level, framed by graduated panels and sculpted anthemia. The entablature here is also plain, topped with a cornice.

The attic features blank central bays with a plain full-height parapet, and the outer sections are raised with five bays. Each of these bays is framed by four caryatids in antis and coupled pilasters, displaying a frieze with sculpted relief lettering. The northern bays are inscribed with the names RAPHAEL, WATT, MICHAELANGELO, NEWTON, and FLAXMAN, while the southern bays feature PURCELL, BACH, HANDEL, MOZART, and BEETHOVEN, all beneath a plain entablature and cornice.

The return bays to Berkeley Street and Kent Road include a low margined entry and a dwarf pilastered side entrance with internal relieving pilasters. There are three pilastered windows on the first floor with two panels above that repeat the main elevation, along with three attic windows featuring glazing bars.