Millar and Lang building detail

Miller & Lang Art Publishers,

46-50 Darnley Street

D.B. Dobson of Gordon & Dobson

D B Dobson (John Gordon and D B Dobson); dated 1902

Commercial building with 3-storey red ashlar front (brick flanks). Modern movement. 4-light splayed bay to right corbelled with angle over ground floor. Stepped crenellated parapet with figure of Minerva. Corbelled 3-light bow to left with carved figure above 1st floor. Top floor windows rise into roof. 2 first floor windows over entrance. Elliptical arched and keyblocked entry grouped under a sinuous cornice with a pair of smaller entrances. The large double doors have oculi and art nouveau detail to handle and lock plates. Unusual detail to rainwater goods, griffin connecting rhones to right.

Exceptionally fine 1st floor interiors with coloured stained-glass by W G Morton, figure mosaics, ironwork, lamp fittings with holly, dolphin and mistletoe details, original embossed finger-plates with sinuous door handles, and other original fittings. Fluted columns with free Ionic capitals, marble wall slabs and panelled walls etc.

References

https://www.trove.scot/designation/LB33402

Related links

https://www.trove.scot/place/178908

https://thehistorygirlsscotland.com/2015/01/29/magical-mystery-tour-miller-lang-publishing-house-pollokshields/

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104677856

https://www.sussexpostcards.info/publishers.php?PubID=6

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