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Clarkston Road 1. Trinity Church William Gardner Rowan, 1893-4, as Cathcart Free Church. Memorial stone laid 8 April 1893. B listed. 2. The Couper Institute. Funded by a bequest from Robert Couper of the local Millholm Paper Mills. Institute by James Sellars, 1887-8 (1887 datestone); new public library added to N by John Alfred Taylor Houston, 1923-4; Sellars' hall and library in range to S replaced by present hall, also by Houston. B listed. 3. Cathcart Station (former entrance/kiosk). Now a pub – The Beechings.

Newlands Road 4. New Cathcart Church (former). John Bennie Wilson, 1907, as Cathcart UF Church; hall to left by John H Hamilton, 1899. Housing conversion completed 2006. B listed. 5. Weirs Pumps Headquarters (former). Pair of large, near identical ranges fronting Newlands Road with the entrance in recessed narrow link. The west range built 1912 to a design purchased from Albert Kahn’s Trussed Concrete Steel Co (USA): steel-framed, with concrete, multi-paned glazed infill panels, horizontal courses with classical mouldings. It is 4-storeys, with a setback 5th storey added by James Miller, 1928-9. Externally identical (minus 5th storey) east range built 1949-51. Facade only listed, as forms group with west range and amenity building. Wrought-iron gates with Art Nouveau ornament. Asymmetrical Amenity Block to east built 1937 by Wylie, Shanks and Wylie Architects. White-rendered with streamlining. B listed. Holmhead Place/Crescent 6. Traditional Victorian tenements with ‘wally close’ tiles. Built on the site of the Geddes Brothers Cathcart Carpet and Dye Works.

Clarkston Road/Holmlea Road 7. Holmlea Primary School (former). Andrew Balfour, 1908 (dated), as Holmlea Public School. Edwardian baroque. "-style" wrought-iron railings enclose playground. Now being converted for social housing by anderson bell + christie. B listed.

Holmlea Road/Clarkston Road 8. Cathcart New Bridge. Dated 1901. Replacement for 1800 humpback bridge (see no. 18) B listed.

Margaretta Buildings 9. Cathcart Railway Station. Opened 1894.

Delvin Road/Manse Brae/ Road 10. Cathcart Old Parish Church (Church of ). H E Clifford, building work said to have begun 1914 but interrupted by War; completed by Watson, Salmond and Gray and opened 1929. Gothic church with tower. B listed. Last church in Scotland to be built by the heritors, which resulted in a lengthy legal process. Foundation stone (unlocated) said to have been laid by John Buchan.

Kilmailing Road 11. Ruins of Cathcart Church and Cemetery. Dedicated to St Oswald. The church was probably by James Dempster, 1830-31, superseded by present church (see previous entry) on nearby site outwith churchyard. Only tower (roofless) and W gable now survive. Monuments in the churchyard include that to the Polmadie Martyrs (Thom, Cooke and Urie), executed in 1685 for their adherence to the Covenant, one to John McIntyre, builder in Glasgow and neighbour to Thomson at Moray Place, by Alexander Thomson, 1867, one Commonwealth War Grave and many more. There is also a decorative round-arched mort-safe and a watch house built into boundary wall to SW of church with hood-moulded Gothic-arched doorway and may be near contemporary with church. B listed.

Old Castle Road 12. The Old Smiddy. Site of the old village smith or smiddy. Run by the Peddie family. Robert Peddie, last of the family, was a vet and had an animal surgery on the first floor. Building now a pub/restaurant. 13. Court Knowe. Said to be one of the places where Mary Queen of Scots watched as her army was defeated in the Battle of , 13 May 1568. The spot on the hilltop is marked by a monument in memory of the defeat. 14. Linn Park. The land was originally part of Hagtonhill which belonged to the Maxwells of Pollok. In 1820 the land was sold to Colin Campbell of the ‘sugar’ Campbells who owned a West India shipping line. In 1840, John Gordon of Aitkenhead purchased the Lynn estate. It was acquired by the Corporation in 1919 and opened to the public in 1921.

Greenock Avenue/Snuff Mill Road 15. Mill House. Built sometime after 1905 by a Mr McIntosh on land where Mill Cottage once stood. 16. Lindsay House, c. 1902. Built for David Lindsay who ran the nearby mill. John Baird II, 1863. Above the door is a perfect monogram with all the letters of the name Lindsay intertwined. 17. The Snuff Mill. Operated by the Lindsay family and later by the Couper brothers, David and James. C listed. Built as a meal mill in the 18th century and converted to a cardboard mill in 1812 (with a small snuff mill added two years later), subsequently converted to houses. 18. Old Snuff Mill Bridge across the White Cart Water. Datestone 1624 (ex situ) although the bridge is probably late 18th century: one arch (S) narrow and semicircular, the other (N) wide and segmental.

Rhannan Road/Rhannan Terrace 19. Holmhead House. Once occupied by the second of the Geddes brothers who owned the Cathcart Carpet and Dye Works on Holmhead Place, (see 6).

Holmhead Road/Struan Road 20. Typical Victorian villas

Clarkston Road 21. Savings Bank of Glasgow (former). Now a bar/restaurant. Built 1925-27 to designs of A N Paterson and Stoddart. "The Savings Bank of Glasgow" sign placed on gable of tenement adjoining (437 Clarkston Road) is presumably also the work of Paterson and Stoddart. Glasgow Coat of Arms above the entrance. B listed. 22. Toledo Cinema (former). William Beresford Inglis, 1933. Spanish/American composition. The last ABC cinema in Glasgow closed 21st October 2001 and converted to flats. B listed.

Sources/further reading Online In print Cathcart Heritage Trail Villages of Glasgow Volume 2 – Aileen Smart ch2 pp 23-48 Scotcities – Cathcart The Buildings of Scotland: Glasgow – Williamson et al pp HES Listed buildings search 534-543 Dictionary of Scottish Architects Exploring Glasgow – Robin Ward pp252-254 Openstreetmap Architecture of Glasgow – Gomme/Walker pp197, 326 National Library of Scotland - Map Images Industrial Archaeology of Glasgow – John R Hume p 281 Linn Park Greater Glasgow: an illustrated architectural guide – Sam James Dornan MSP – history of Cathcart Small pp 141-145 glasgowguide.co.uk The Tenement: A Way of Life – Frank Worsdall pp104-105 Legacies of British Slave-ownership Alexander Thomson: The Unknown Genius – Gavin Stamp Snuff Mill Conservation Area p170 gillianswalks.com The Life and Work of Alexander Thomson – Ronald map for above walk McFadzean pp166/168