Trust goes City-wide

As of 1st April 2008, Glasgow City Heritage Trust can for the first time offer grants for comprehensive repair and restoration schemes to listed buildings across the City, including those outside Glasgow’s conservation areas. Previously, funding has been limited to buildings within these areas. This expansion to city-wide coverage will enable the Trust to invest further funds into preserving the unique character of the City’s historic built environment.
Glasgow currently has 22 conservation areas, which vary in character from the city centre and Victorian residential suburbs to a rural village and a former country estate. These areas are defined as "of special architectural or historic interest, the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance". Additionally, Glasgow has approximately 1,800 listed buildings located throughout, which add significantly to the identity and image of the City.

If you have repair works to undertake to a listed building in Glasgow or a historic property within a conservation area, please contact us to see if we can help. (To find out if your building is listed or falls within one of the City’s conservation areas, click here and perform a property address search.)

Aikenhead House, a category A listed mansion house in the Cathcart area of Glasgow.

Glasgow City Heritage Trust...Six Months On

Since Glasgow City Heritage Trust’s work started in earnest back in 2007, they have invested over £225,000 in repair, conservation and restoration works to Glasgow’s historic built environment. This investment has been made through grants issued for windows, doors, roofs and stonework for both major public and residential historic buildings across the City. Recipient of the Trust’s first domestic buildings grant, Lynne Ward, says “The grant was a fabulous opportunity to both schedule my renovations sooner, thanks to the financial support, and also to get some technical support, invaluable for those who aren’t experts in conservation. I love the proportions and detail of the Glasgow tenements and it was important to me to try to retain original features and reflect the traditional craftsmanship of the time in my renovation works. The Trust is a counter-balance to any extra cost involved in undertaking such a high standard of work, ensuring there is a greater incentive for Glasgow residents such as myself to protect their properties for the future.”
 The Glasgow City Heritage Trust team have also recently established a Heritage Grants programme, which will be used to support Glasgow’s educational establishments in facilitating projects, training courses and other events related to the City’s architectural heritage and traditional building skills.
More details will be posted online later in the year- join our mailing list to keep up to date with this and all other news and developments within the Trust.

The team’s Grants Officer, Gordon Urquhart, contemplates the West End skyline.

Mackintosh’s Queens Cross Church re-opens

Glasgow City Heritage Trust has recently contributed £58,801 to aid the refurbishment of Queens Cross Church, the only church designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh to have been built and the Mackintosh Society's headquarters. The refurbishment project included repair work to the roof, stonework and leaded glass. The building is in the west of Glasgow and open to the public; visit the Mackintosh Society website for details and opening hours.

Queens Cross Church. Image: CRM Society