Glasgow Steiner School

Address: 52 Lumsden Street G3 8RH

Architect: J J Burnet (1876)

Information: The building started life as Overnewton Public School, opened in 1877 with a school role of 890 children. The buildings we see today, although in need of restoration and repair, remain remarkably unchanged from the original design. Throughout its history the building has always been associated with children, and it has a unique design and character, with many traditional features still intact. The Glasgow Coat of Arms is carved onto the outside façade, and it is undoubtedly an important building in Glasgow's past. The school has embarked, with support from Glasgow City Heritage Trust and the Climate Challenge Fund, on an ambitious programme of works to retain and restore the building's heritage for all who use and benefit from it, whilst becoming a low carbon sustainable building fit for the future. Discover the beauty of this B-listed original school building through exhibitions on its past and future, education displays, lovely homebaking, music and children's activities. There will be a display of photographs from the Victorian origins of the school focusing on the now lost role of the “pupil teacher”, illustrated by the life of a pupil teacher at Overnewton in the 1880s – Thomas Francis Best.

Comments: No access to gatehouse, shed or office. Steward on duty.

Disabled access: Assisted access. Other motability access.

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