Clydebank Town Hall:
Designed by the prolific architect James Miller (1860-1947). Opened in 1902 and Italian classical renaissance in style the town hall occupies the block between Bruce Street to the east and Hall Street to the west, with the north elevation onto Dumbarton Road. The block is shared with a tenement which occupies the north-west corner of the site and the south-east corner of the site which is occupied by a barrel vaulted former public baths which are linked to the town hall. Two storeys tall the town hall turns the corner of Dumbarton Road and Hall Street with a clock tower with a war memorial set into its west elevation. In 2011 when the photographs below were taken the halls were closed and undergoing an extensive refit and restoration, this work included the public baths on Bruce Street which can be seen in the last four photographs on this page. The building is category B listed.
street address: 49 Dumbarton Road, Clydebank, Glasgow, G81 1UE
Latitude / Longitude: 55.901044,-4.40792 (sourced using Google Maps)
looking west along Dumabrton Road with the north elevation of the building and its tower in the foreground
the tenement to the east (left of photograph) adjoins the the first bay of the north elevation of the town hall. This first bay is ornate and had deep stonework around an arched doorway, above an arched window is crowned by a pediment top giving way to a muscular nautically themed sculpture of two figures and the prow of a ship.
sculpture in close up
main doorway on the north elevation
strong symmetry, classical details, ionic columns and carving above with the labore et scientia (by work and by knowledge) crest centrally positioned over the grand doorway.
view up the main doorway
carving at the top of the main doorway
view up the north elevation and the tower
north-west elevation, with the north elevation on Dumbarton Road and the view down Hall Street
the square plan tower, crowned by a dome held aloft and detailed with pairs of columns to each corner
view north back up Hall Street, with the war memorial visible at the foot of the tower's west elevation
view up the tower with the war memorial commenmorating the first world war losses
beneath the figure of Mercury the war memorial records the second world war dates. A plaques to each records the names of the fallen from each conflict.
west elevation
top portion of the central doorway on the west elevation
west elevation
view north along the entire west elevation
the barrel vaulted public baths at the site's south-east corner, the barrel vaulted building was the pool hall, the demolished building next door housed the baths, only the ground floor part of the east elevation remains in this photograph. A 1960s extension to the baths stood in the gap to the right of the photograph, filling the gap between the scaffolded facade and the tenement to the north. This 1960s building was already fully demolished at the time of these photographs being taken.
pool hall to the left, scaffolded facade of the building housing the baths to the right
east elevation
details over he centre of the east elevation
labore et scientia crest
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