Pollokshields Burgh Hall


The Pollokshields Burgh Hall is a municipal building at the edge of Maxwell Park, Glasgow, Scotland. It is a Category A listed building.

History

The building was commissioned by Sir John Stirling Maxwell and designed by Henry Edward Clifford in the Scottish Baronial style. It was built with dark red sandstone from the Ballochmyle Estate in Ayrshire and was completed in 1890. It was initially used as a masonic meeting place by masonic lodge no. 772 and was also briefly used as the headquarters of the independent burgh of Pollokshields until 1891 when the burgh was absorbed into the city of Glasgow in 1891. It was extended in 1935.
After functioning as a day centre for Glasgow Corporation and then, from 1975, for Strathclyde Regional Council, it was deemed surplus to requirements in 1982 and acquired the Pollokshields Burgh Hall Trust for a nominal sum in 1986. Following refurbishment by the trust it reopened for community use in 1997.
The actress, Keira Knightley, attended her brother's wedding at the hall in April 2011.

Architecture

The dominant external feature of the building is the high tower while the entrance porch exhibits the Maxwell family coat of arms flanked by two Scottish lions.