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Description

T L Watson, 1905. Free Renaissance school. 3 storeys

rising to 4 at rear. Modern addition. Corner site, square

9-bay school. Ashlar with rusticated base, snecked stone

rear elevation. Elevations to Renfrew Street and Garnet

Street arranged 3-3-3. All windows sash and case with

glazing bars; relieving arches above on ground floor,

cornices on 1st floor. 2nd floor cill band. Eaves

cornice. Slate roof.

ELEVATION TO RENFREW STREET: entrance in 2nd and 3rd bays

from E corniced banded and marked INFANTS. Main front

with central recessed 3-bay section flanked by giant

pilasters; bowed pilastraded 5-light windows on ground

and 1st floor with lettered frieze between "GARNETBANK

PUBLIC SCHOOL" and frieze above 1st floor "SCHOOL BOARD

OF GLASGOW"; 2nd floor 3-light arched and voussoired

window breaking through pediment.

ELEVATION TO GARNET STREET: projecting 3-bay central

section, with giant square angle piers, banded ground

floor entrance with corniced entry and sidelights; 1st

floor plain windows, 2nd floor shaped pediments. 2

central piers supporting 3rd floor balcony with cast-iron

balustrade in front of corniced Venetian window with

sculpture tympanum. Segmental pediment. Slim corniced

stack rising through re-entrant angle on N side.

Plain windows at rear elevation.

Slate roof.

Boundary cast-iron railings with corniced piers.

JANITOR'S HOUSE AT NO 219 RENFREW STREET: 1 storey and

attic asymmetrical. Pilastered central entrance with

segmental sculptured pediment. All windows sash and case.

2-light window with stone mullion to E, pedimented dormer

above, circular window to W. Western gable with skews

and skewputts pierced with 2 single-light windows.

Corniced axial stack.

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