Fears for Mackintosh legacy as Martyrs’ School goes up for sale

The ‘A’ listed Martyrs’ School, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh is up for sale. This is a dreadful indictment on Glasgow City Council (GCC); that such a prestigious Mackintosh Building should be discarded without due care and discussion with the Mackintosh Society and other stakeholders. The agents representing the sale

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‘Our once-beautiful Glasgow looks like a bomb hit it’

Marc Horne Saturday April 06 2024, 6.00pm, The Sunday Times The Lion Chambers on Hope Street Stuart Robertson, of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, says Scotland’s biggest city, a Victorian treasure, is falling into ‘third world’ decline, and the council is not helping. In 1967, Sir John Betjeman, the English

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