![]() | M169 Ruchill Free Church HallsAddress: 15–17, Shakespeare Street, Glasgow G20 8THDate: 1899 Client: Westbourne Free Church Authorship: ![]() |
- 1898
- 3 October: Westbourne Free Church Session has decided to
move its Maryhill mission premises westward from Gairbraid Street to a site
'such as Ruchill St.' 1
21 December: Purchase of site on E. side of Ruchill Street approved. Cost £1064. 2
- 1899
- 23 January: John Honeyman & Keppie have been appointed architects for
the mission buildings, having prepared preliminary plans of how the site might
accommodate these along with a possible future church. 3
February: Plans drawn for submission to Glasgow Dean of Guild Court. 4
9 March: Plans approved by Glasgow Dean of Guild Court. 5
15 March: Tenders accepted. 6
23 March: Foundations commenced. 7
27 May: Memorial stone laid. 8
5 July: Hall roof in progress. 9
9 December: New buildings formally dedicated. 10
- 1901
-
6 May: Deacon's Court of Westbourne Free Church approve estimate for
adding a wash-house to the church officer's house. 11
- 1903–5
-
Ruchill Church built on adjoining site, designed by Neil C. Duff. 12
- 1907
-
February: Plans of church halls examined by Scotch Education Department,
for reasons which are not recorded. 13
- 1976
- January:
Proposals for conservation work to halls prepared by Holmes & Partners,
Architects, Glasgow. Listed Building Consent sought. 14
- 1979
- Halls described as 'recently
extensively restored and stone-cleaned'. 15
- 1984
- February: Strathclyde
Regional Council awards a grant of £7000 towards restoration work at
Ruchill Parish Church and Hall; overall cost of works estimated to be
£50,000; 'extensive programme of repairs underway' at Hall. 16
Six stained wood and leaded glass leaves of a folding partition discovered in 'organ basement'. 17
- 1993
- 'An intensive repair
programme is in hand.' 18
- 2004
- 9 February: Granted
£33,600 by Heritage Lottery Fund. 19
- 2006
- March: 'The second phase of ... refurbishment ... has
recently been completed.' 20
Notes:
1: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Westbourne Free Church Deacons' Court minutes, CH3/1412/19, 3 October 1898.
2: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Westbourne Free Church Deacons' Court minutes, CH3/1412/19, 9 January 1899.
3: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Westbourne Free Church Deacons' Court minutes, CH3/1412/19, 23 January 1899.
4: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild plans, TD1309/A110.
5: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/21, p. 33.
6: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Westbourne Free Church Deacons' Court minutes, CH3/1412/19, 15 March 1899.
7: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/21, p. 33.
8: Glasgow Herald, 29 May 1899, p. 12.
9: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Glasgow Dean of Guild Court, Register of Inspections, D-OPW 25/21, p. 33.
10: Glasgow Herald, 11 December 1899, p. 10.
11: Glasgow City Archives Collection: Westbourne Free Church Deacons' Court minutes, CH3/1412/19, 6 May 1901.
12: Elizabeth Williamson, Anne Riches and Malcolm Higgs, Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow, London: Penguin, 1990, p. 327.
13: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: GLAHA 52442 (M169-003); GLAHA 52443 (M169-001); GLAHA 52444 (M169-002).
14: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Ruchill Free Church Halls building file.
15: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter, 23, Autumn 1979.
16: Glasgow Herald, 9 February 1984, p. 3; West End Times, 17 February 1984, p. 4; Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter, 36, February 1984, p. 3.
17: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Ruchill Free Church Halls building file.
18: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society Newsletter, 63, Winter 1993, p. 9.
19: Heritage Lottery Fund, www.hlf.org.uk/ [accessed 4 February 2013].
20: The Hunterian, University of Glasgow: Ruchill Free Church Halls building file.