Caledonia Road Free Church
Tall, brooding, purposeless magnificent ruin for years . Today's building is what is left of the Caledonia Road United Presbyterian church in Glasgow, designed by Alexander "Greek" Thomson in 1856. Thomson planted a high podium of liverish sandstone, and crowned it with an Ionic temple portico, creating a sort of acropolis. To one side he put a tall, obelisk-shaped tower with dark, blank openings near the top. These, and the windows along the sides, are trapezoid rather than rectangular, making the church seem braced to the ground in anticipation of some terrible blow. This duly came in 1965 when vandals burned the building out, destroying the roof (the lead from it had already been pinched) and leaving behind a gaunt ruin. Now a Grade "A" listed building. But, before listing, the Council were going to knock it down and replace it with a plaque.
Caledonia Road Free Church
Tall, brooding, purposeless magnificent ruin for years . Today's building is what is left of the Caledonia Road United Presbyterian church in Glasgow, designed by Alexander "Greek" Thomson in 1856. Thomson planted a high podium of liverish sandstone, and crowned it with an Ionic temple portico, creating a sort of acropolis. To one side he put a tall, obelisk-shaped tower with dark, blank openings near the top. These, and the windows along the sides, are trapezoid rather than rectangular, making the church seem braced to the ground in anticipation of some terrible blow. This duly came in 1965 when vandals burned the building out, destroying the roof (the lead from it had already been pinched) and leaving behind a gaunt ruin. Now a Grade "A" listed building. But, before listing, the Council were going to knock it down and replace it with a plaque.