Port Glasgow Town Building
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Port Glasgow Town Building
Image: © Thomas Nugent Taken: 1 May 2017
Viewed from Birkmyre Park, with Westerhill Farm Image near Cardross in the distance. A Category A Listed building http://data.historic-scotland.gov.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=2200:15:0::::BUILDING:40071 , the distinctive Town Building was funded by public subscription and was constructed in 1815-16 to a design by prominent Scottish architect David Hamilton http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hamilton_%28architect%29 (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 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.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.934729
Longitude
-4.687668