Inside the main hall of architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh's superb Hill House in Helensburgh. Completed late in 1903, it is widely believed to be one of the finest private houses built anywhere in the world in the 20th Century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/helensburgh/hillhouse/index.html
A little bit of Charles Rennie MacKintosh to get Saturday started. This is the Art Nouveau style Helensburgh and Gareloch Conservative Club, thought to have been created by MacKintosh in 1894 while he was working as a designer for Honeyman and Keppie. It's a pity the modern shopfront isn't more in keeping with the rest of the building.
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I love this little sculpted cat on a ledge of the Helensburgh Municipal Building. Apparently, it was based on a cat which was hanging around the site when this part of the building was being constructed on 1906.
It's actually quite surprising how often such statues of cats appear on older buildings, and even some newer ones!
Love this fantastic bit of curvilinear tracery on a Gothic Arched window of Helensburgh Parish Church. This church was designed by J.W. and J. Hay and was constructed in 1853.
I came across this beautiful and ornate building number on 16 Colquhoun Street in Helensburgh today. I particularly like the Disgorging Green Man at the bottom, a very appropriate symbol to come across as we move towards Spring.
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Today, looking from Ardmore Point across a rather windswept Firth of Clyde to Helensburgh.
One of the many amazing lights designed by Charles Remmie MacKintosh in the early 1900s for the interior of the Hill House in Helensburgh.
Inside the main hall of architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh's superb Hill House in Helensburgh. Completed late in 1903, it is widely believed to be one of the finest private houses built anywhere in the world in the 20th Century. More pics and info: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/helensburgh/hillhouse/index.html
