Thomas Lennox Watson
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Thomas Lennox Watson was a Scottish architect and interior designer. He submitted designs for the Glasgow City Chambers
(1880) and Kelvingrove Art Gallery (1892) competitions, but was unsuccessful.
Glasgow City Chambers
The City Chambers in Glasgow, Scotland has functioned as the headquarters of Glasgow City Council since 1996, and of preceding forms of civic government in the city since 1889, located on the eastern side of the city's George Square...
(1880) and Kelvingrove Art Gallery (1892) competitions, but was unsuccessful.
Works
- Adelaide Place Baptist Church, Pitt Street (1875-7)
- Hillhead Baptist Church, Creswell Street (1883)
- Wellington ChurchWellington ChurchWellington Church is a congregation and parish church of the Church of Scotland, serving part of the Hillhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. The building is located on University Avenue, Glasgow, opposite the University of Glasgow.-Building:...
, University Avenue (1882-4) - The Royal Clyde Yacht Club, Hunters Quay (1889–91)
- Woodcroft, Larbert (1890-1)
- The South School, Paisley (1893-5)
- 59 Bath Street (1899–1900, demolished c1967)
- Dr James Hederwick Monument, with a bronze portrait by J P Macgillivray, Glasgow Cathedral (1901)
- Saracen Head tenement, Gallowgate (1906)
- the interiors for the yachts, MohicanUSS Mohican (SP-117)The third USS Mohican , later USS SP-117, was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919....
and MeteorThistle (yacht)Thistle was the unsuccessful Scottish challenger of the seventh America's Cup in 1887 against American defender Volunteer.-Design:The cutter Thistle was designed by George Lennox Watson, with interiors by his brother Thomas Lennox Watson, and built at the D&W Henderson shipyard in Partick on the...
, the latter for Kaiser Wilhelm II - War memorial of the Royal Technical College (1920)