Basic Site Details Name: | Glasgow Botanic Garden, Kibble Palace | City or county: | Glasgow | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Originally designed and built as the conservatory for Coulport House, Loch Long, Argyll (see separate entry), and subsequently moved to Glasgow Botanic Garden in 1872.
Personal information from Cousland family per Alfred G Lochhead. | Alternative NamesThe following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | | Name | Current name? | Notes | | Coulport House, conservatory | | Originally built as a conservatory to Coulport House | | Glasgow Botanic Garden, The Art Palace | | From 1873, having been floated from Coulport House to Glasgow up the Kelvin on a raft | | Royal Botanic Institution, Kibble Palace | | The Royal Botanic Institution bought the lease in 1880 |
Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Botanic garden | | | | Palace | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1863 | | | First phase: cruciform structure with apsed ends and central entrance transept, built as a conservatory to Coulport House, Loch Long, Argyll | | 1865 | 1866 | | Second phase: aisled domes, one small, one large on axis of transept: total cost £15,000 - still as conservatory to Coulport House | | March 1871 | | | Offered to Glasgow Town Council for Queen's Park; offer declined | | August 1871 | | | Offered to Glasgow Botanic Garden, subject to 20-year lease; offer accepted | | May 1873 | | | Reopened in Glasgow Botanic Garden as The Art Palace | | 1881 | | | Converted to winter garden; pool and orchestra pit filled in; dome raised on clerestory |
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 | | Boucher & Cousland | | A | 1863 | 1866 | Cousland made wire model, executed by ironfounder John Boyd of Paisley; it is unclear whether Cousland was involved in later phases of work | | James Boyd (or John Boyd) | | A | 1863 | 1866 | Executed the structure, based on wire model by James Cousland | | James Cousland | | A | 1863 | 1866 | Cousland made wire model, executed by ironfounder John Boyd of Paisley; it is unclear whether Cousland was involved in later phases of work | | James Boyd (or John Boyd) | | B | 1871 | 1873 | Extensions, following the move of the structure from Loch Long to Glasgow - unclear whether alone or in collaboration with Cousland | | James Boyd (or John Boyd) | | C | 1881 | | Converted to winter garden; pool and orchestra pit filled in; dome raised on clerestory - all to designs by Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of Kew Gardens |
Related Buildings, Structures and DesignsParent Structure and SiteThis structure is related to the following parent structure or site (click the item to view details): | | Building name | Notes | | Coulport House | See separate entry for Kibble Palace in Glasgow Botanic Garden, originally built as a conservatory for Coulport House and floated up the Kelvin on a raft to reopen in greatly enlarged form as The Art Palace in May 1873. |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Curtis, Eric | | Kibble Palace | | | | | Kohlmaier, Georg and von Sartory, Barna | 1981 | Houses of Glass | | | | | Reeve, Richard | 2005 | A Victorian Burgh: the story of Cove and Kilcreggan | | | pp135-142 | | Williamson, Riches, Higgs | 1990 | Glasgow (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p305 | | Woods, May and Warren, Arete | 1988 | Glasshouses | | | |
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