Mackintosh Queen's Cross
Only completed church by an art nouveau master, with a borrowed medieval tower and carved pulpit.
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This guide to Mackintosh Queen's Cross in Glasgow follows a young trainee architect handed a church commission in eighteen ninety-six by a strict Free Church congregation, on an awkward plot squeezed between tenements and a warehouse. It touches a medieval tower in a Somerset village, the steel of shipbuilding Glasgow, and a carved pulpit. Stand facing the south-west tower before stepping inside.
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