Port Glasgow Town Building © Thomas Nugent cc-by-sa/2.0

NS3274 : Port Glasgow Town Building

taken 6 years ago, near to Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, Great Britain

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Port Glasgow Town Building

A Category A Listed building Link

,the distinctive Town Building was funded by public subscription and was constructed in 1815-16 to a design by prominent Scottish architect David Hamilton Link

(1768-1843). It is described as a two storey ashlar classic with tetrastyle G Doric portico. The copper weather vane is a six foot model of a fully rigged sailing ship, which sits 150 feet above sea level.

Erected in what was a harbourside location (the grass in the foreground is where the Wet Dock stood), the building now sits in an ever decreasing piece of parkland at the entrance to the town centre. The well loved building lay unused for a few years before being extended and converted for community use in the mid 1990s and now includes a library on the ground floor.

See the weather vane...

NS3274 : Crow's nest?
NS3274 : Port Glasgow Town Building weather vane

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Grid Square: NS3274, 1655 images (more nearby )
Photographer: Thomas Nugent (find more nearby)
Date Taken: Sunday, 1 November, 2015 (more nearby)
Submitted: Sunday, 22 November, 2015
Geographical Context: Historic sites and artefacts Public buildings and spaces City, Town centre
Subject Location: OSGB36: NS 3223 7455 [10m precision]
WGS84: 55:56.0788N 4:41.2405W
Camera Location: OSGB36: NS 3252 7453
View Direction: WEST (about 270 degrees)