Candleriggs Glasgow, Photos, Market Building, Image, Architect, Date
Candleriggs, Glasgow
Restaurants + Shops: Market in the Merchant City
post updated 31 July 2023
Historic Merchant City Buildings
Fruit Market by Houston in 1907 and market hall by Carrick in 1852
photos © Adrian Welch
Candleriggs Buildings
Pubs & restaurants gathered around covered cobbled hall with cafe seating invading the space
photo © Adrian Welch
Just to the south – Candleriggs Building
photo © Adrian Welch
Just to the north – Glasgow City Halls + Old Fruitmarket – renovation 2006
image © Adrian Welch
Buildings close by to Candleriggs Market
Glasgow Cross
picture from architect
Graham Square – housing
photo © Andrew Lee
Icon Building
photo : Keith Hunter
Italian Centre – shops
photo © Adrian Welch
Candleriggs
Candleriggs is an important venue in the city of Glasgow, Scotland where it is located in the Merchant City area of the city centre (it is also a street in Alloa, Clackmannanshire, central Scotland).
Candleriggs was historically the area of the old city of Glasgow where candlemakers plied their trade, at a safe distance from the crowded tenements clustered around the High Street. As the city expanded in the eighteenth century it became a thriving thoroughfare itself, lined with tenements and businesses typical of Glasgow at that time.
Looking down Candleriggs from its northern junction with Ingram Street, stands St David’s, later known as Ramshorn Kirk. It had been without a congregation for a long while before being purchased by the University of Strathclyde in 1982.
The church dates from 1826, built in Gothic Revival style by an English architect, Thomas Rickman, whose plans featured the large central tower which dominates the structure. It now serves as the home for the University of Strathclyde’s Confucius Institute for Scotlands Schools and Scotland’s National Centre for Languages.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candleriggs
Glasgow Building Designs
Contemporary Glasgow Property Designs – recent architectural selection below:
Clyde Gateway Community Park
image courtesy of developer
Clyde Gateway
St Enoch Centre Glasgow Redevelopment
image courtesy of architects practice
St Enoch Centre Glasgow Redevelopment
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