Parish Council Offices, 266 George Street, Glasgow

The Parish Council Offices, located at 266 George Street in Glasgow, were designed by Thomson and Sandilands and completed in 1900. This three-storey building, which includes an attic and basement, showcases an Edwardian Baroque style constructed from red sandstone, featuring extensive carved decoration. The symmetrical five-bay facade facing George Street has end bays that are slightly advanced and linked by a band of masonry above the first floor. The polished red ashlar basement has been cleaned.

The central entrance features a doorway framed by polished pink granite Ionic columns that support a porch. This round-arched doorway is adorned with a moulded archivolt and keystone, and it includes an astragalled glazed fanlight. Above the porch is an elaborate solid parapet balcony that partially obscures the first-floor window.

All ground floor windows are round-arched, with moulded archivolts resting on wide pilasters, each topped with a bold keystone. The inner three bays are supported by centrally placed single corbels that hold the solid base of two-storey oriels, which are interrupted by a solid band of masonry over the first floor, creating a false balcony. These oriels rise to curvilinear parapets. The third floor features large round-headed windows that illuminate the hall, with paired fluted Ionic columns separating the bays and supporting a deep cornice on impost blocks. The outer bays have a two-storey oriel from the first floor, set within a three-storey arched recess, and a pilastered round-arched window on the third floor, along with an attic round-arched dormer. All windows are sash and case with plate-glass glazing, except for the inner bays on the third floor, which have margin glazing.

The building is topped with a heavy eaves cornice, a balustraded parapet, and die piers with urn finials. A central metal dome with an ashlar lantern is present, while the end bays feature lead French pavilion roofs.

Inside, the building contains well-crafted panelled timber doors and some fine plaster cornices. The impressive staircase is adorned with timber balusters and a coloured leaded glass stair light. A glazed tile vestibule leads to the hall on the third floor, which boasts elaborate plasterwork Corinthian pilasters with gilded putti supporting a coved cornice.