Steps And Retaining Wall, Kelvinside Terrace West, Glasgow

The structure is a large curved retaining wall and staircase built around 1872, likely designed by Alexander Thomson. It is located below the roadway of Kelvinside Terrace in Glasgow, with a wide staircase to the west that leads from the former Queen Margaret Bridge, which was demolished around 1971, to the east of the new Queen Margaret Bridge.

The retaining wall features battered stugged and squared masonry with an ashlar coping. There is a blind arcade with engaged stugged pilasters on the eastern side of the steps. In the center of the wall, a short colonnade consists of Tuscan columns with flared capitals that support an ashlar entablature with detailed cornice work. Coped square piers flank the colonnade. The eastern section of the wall has a lugged ashlar frame and a corbel table, topped with plain cast iron railings and coped rectangular-plan piers.

The staircase comprises 66 steps, bordered by ashlar-coped stugged balustrade walls, with a plain cast-iron handrail running down the center of the steps.