Cottiers Theatre
Victorian Gothic church turned theatre and bar, with a soaring spire and painted Aesthetic interiors.
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This guide to Cottiers Theatre in Glasgow's West End starts in the summer of nineteen ninety-five, when a small group of musicians brought chamber concerts into a former Victorian church that had no piano of its own. It reaches back to William Leiper's Dowanhill Church and the decorator Daniel Cottier, whose name the venue now carries. Best heard standing inside the old nave, looking up at the galleries.
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