Basic Site Details Name: | Miss Cranston's Tea Rooms, Ingram Street | Town, district or village: | Merchant City | City or county: | Glasgow | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | B Listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Mackintosh's interiors now removed and in the care of Glasgow Museums. | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Eating and drinking establishment | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | 205-217, Ingram Street | Yes | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1900 or 1904 | | | Original scheme for ladies' lunch room, billiard room, smoking room and rear tea room | | 1907 | | | Interior of Oak Room | | 1909 | 1910 | | Interiors of Oval Room and the ladies' rest room | | 1911 | | | Interior of Chinese Room (and Blue Room ?) | | 1911 | 1912 | | Interior of Cloister Room | | 1950 | | | Bought by Glasgow Corporation to save from destruction | | 1954 | | Alterations and additions | | | 1971 | | | Interiors removed, to be partially reconstructed by Glasgow Museums: still not carried out |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes | | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | | A | 1900 or 1904 | | Original scheme for ladies' lunch room, billiard room, smoking room and rear tea room - in collaboration with his wife, Margaret Macdonald | | Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh | | A | 1900 or 1904 | | Original scheme for ladies' lunch room, billiard room, smoking room and rear tea room - in collaboration with Mackintosh's wife, Margaret Macdonald | | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | | B | 1907 | | Interior of Oak Room | | Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh | | B | 1907 | | Interior of Oak Room | | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | | C | 1909 | 1910 | Interior of Oval Room and ladies' rest room | | Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh | | C | 1909 | 1910 | Interior of Oval Room and ladies' rest room | | John Keppie | | C | 1909 | 1910 | Interior of Oval Room and ladies' rest room | | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | | D | 1911 | | Blue room added; interior of Chinese Room | | Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh | | D | 1911 | | Blue room added; interior of Chinese Room | | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | | E | 1911 | 1912 | Interior of Cloister Room | | Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh | | E | 1911 | 1912 | Interior of Cloister Room | | Alexander David Hislop | | F | 1954 | | Alterations |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes | | Cooper's Tea Rooms | Client for 1954 work | | Cranston, Miss Catherine | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Billcliffe, Roger | 1979 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Complete Furniture, Furniture Drawings & Interior Designs | | Guildford & London: Lutterworth Press | pp84-94, 194-6, 201-4 and 214-17 | | Crawford, Alan | 1995 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | | London: Thames and Hudson | pp72-6 | | Kinchin, Perilla | 2004 | Glasgow's Hidden Treasure: Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Ingram Street Tearoom | | | | | Robertson, Pamela | 1985 | Catherine Cranston | no 10 | The Journal of the Decorative Arts Society | | | Robertson, Pamela and Johnston, J Stewart | 1996 | Charles Rennie Mackintosh | exhibition catalogue | Glasgow: Glasgow Museums | pp20 and 263-89 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Glasgow University Library Special Collections | Hislop & Welsh Collection | MS Hislop 99/1-15 | | | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 32736 | | | Hunterian Museum | Mackintosh Collection | | Job Book . (Also for 1911 work) | | Keppie Design (David Stark) | Database of jobs by Honeyman and Keppie | | No 306, 347 & 353 |
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