Basic Biographical Details Name: | Clarke & Bell | Designation: | | Born: | 1841 | Died: | 31 December 1903 | Bio Notes: | William Clarke was born in Ayr in 1809, the son of Marion Paul who gave him the surname of Clark, that of his reputed father William Clark. The Clarke spelling was adopted later. In or about 1823 he was articled to William Burn and remained with him as a draughtsman. George Bell, born on 31 July 1814 in Lanarkshire, the son of John Bell and Agnes Donaldson, joined Burn's staff from the London office of Archibald Elliot II and his brother Alexander. In 1841 while still in Burn's employ they entered a joint competition for Lanarkshire County Buildings and the Merchants' House of Glasgow in which it was 'a condition … that each of the buildings was to have its individuality, but that together they would be in harmony'. Their design - what seems to be their perspective is now in NMRS - appears to have drawn inspiration from Harvey Lonsdale Elmes's original designs for St George's Hall and The Assize Courts in Liverpool when these were separate projects: Bell may have seen these when still in London. As a result of their success in the competition they formed a partnership which at once attained a place in the foremost rank of Scottish architects, a position consolidated by being premiated in the Edinburgh Free Church College competition two years later. The commission for the latter was, however, given to William Henry Playfair. By at least 1843 Clarke and Bell had opened an office in Glasgow at 135 Buchanan Street which seems to have also been their home address, a move further encouraged by the first of several commissions for the reconstruction of the Justiciary Courts in 1845. Together with Baird and Wilson, Clarke and Bell were the principal beneficiaries of the collapse of the D & J Hamilton/James Smith partnership in 1844.
Of the two partners, Clarke was the more active in public affairs. He was one of the leading members of the Architectural Institute of Scotland founded in 1850, contributing a paper on Scots Pictorial Architecture delivered on 27 February 1851. In 1855 he designed the Italian Renaissance Room in that body's Scottish Exhibition Rooms in Bath Street (the building itself was by Alexander Thomson) and, although not one of the leading founding members in 1858, he became a prominent member of the Glasgow Architectural Society, delivering the 1864 opening address. It was, however, Bell who sought membership of the RIBA during the Charles Barry Jun. - John Honeyman recruiting campaign, Clarke being by then sixty-nine and nearing retirement. Bell was admitted FRIBA on 16 December 1878, his proposers being John Baird II, John Honeyman and James Thomson.
Clarke's is the more readily identifiable architectural personality, with a marked predilection for shallow relief and Corinthian pilasters, his style changing little during his long career. The more three-dimensional columnar treatments and richer detail of the Caledonian and North British Insurance buildings were probably Bell's. In contrast to their refined classicism their Gothic buildings were spiky, angular and hard-edged, perhaps influenced by the work of Billings.
Bell died on 4 January 1887 at Invereoch Cottage, Kilmun, and Clarke almost exactly two years later of apoplexy on 5 January 1889 at his house at 12 Ballantine Drive, Ayr. Bell left moveable estate of £2,410 19s 2d, but both partners probably had significant heritable property. Clarke's obituarist described him as 'simple in manner, kindly of heart, genial in social intercourse, full of curious anecdote and reminiscence and with much humour of a peculiar quaintness' - evidently part of the Glasgow architect's stock-in-trade since John Keppie made a similar observation on Sellars's 'quaint repartee'.
Prior to their deaths Clarke and Bell had taken into partnership George Bell II, born in Springburn in 1854, and had come to some sort of arrangement with Robert Alexander Bryden. Bryden was born in Glasgow in 1841, the son of Robert Bryden, Royal Bank Place, and Margaret Ramage of Kirkurd, Peeblesshire. He was educated at Arthur's Academy Dunoon and Kirkcaldy Grammar School. Articled to Clarke & Bell, he was allowed to insert his name in The Glasgow Directory as 'at Clarke and Bell's' by 1864 and in 1865 he made an influential marriage to Elizabeth Robertson, daughter of Alexander Robertson, a Glasgow ironfounder who retired to Dunoon, consolidating the connections Bryden already had there. Like George Bell II, who rose to the rank of Lt Col in the Lanarkshire Artillery Volunteers, Bryden had military connections, as a major in the 1st Lanarkshire volunteers. In the Directory of 1875-76 Bryden appears as 'of Clarke and Bell', implying a very senior position within the firm if not an actual partnership; and from 1876 Bryden seems to have run a simultaneous practice within the same office at 37 West Nile Street, a situation which persisted until 1891 when he was again described as 'of Clarke and Bell' and is known to have been in a formal partnership with the firm (see separate entry for Clarke & Bell & R A Bryden). The partnership was a loose one, with the two practices sharing an accounting structure but carrying out much of their work separately. The office was said to be divided with lettered glazed doors to their separate chambers. When this partnership dissolved on 31 December 1903, Bryden set up practice on his own account at Richmond Chambers, 147 Bath Street and George Bell II continued the practice under the previous name at 212 St Vincent Street.
By 1902 Bell seems to have been concerned to assume into partnership James Hoey Craigie, then his principal assistant, as the latter's Graeco-Baroque was more in touch with the times than Bryden's free Renaissance and better able to compete with Burnet, Campbell and Sandilands. . On 1 January 1905 Craigie was formally taken into partnership by George Bell, the firm's name changing to Clarke & Bell & J H Craigie (see separate entry). | Private and Business AddressesThe following private or business addresses are associated with this : | | Address | Type | Date from | Date to | Notes | ![Item 1 of 4](images/table_item.gif) | 135, Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | Before 1843 | 1850 | | ![Item 2 of 4](images/table_item.gif) | 51, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1850 | 1860 | | ![Item 3 of 4](images/table_item.gif) | 37, West Nile Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | 1860 | After 1875 | | ![Item 4 of 4](images/table_item.gif) | 212, St Vincent Street, Glasgow, Scotland | Business | c. 1879 | After 1904 | and to after 1930 for the practice) |
Employment and TrainingEmployees or Pupils* earliest date known from documented sources.
Buildings and DesignsThis was involved with the following buildings or structures from the date specified (click on an item to view details): | | Date started | Building name | Town, district or village | Island | City or county | Country | Notes | ![Item 1 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | | Agricultural College | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Extensions - date unknown | ![Item 2 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | | Blackburn, feuing plan | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Date unknown (1915 plans appear to be by another hand) | ![Item 3 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | | Earlston School | Earlston | | Berwickshire | Scotland | Date unknown | ![Item 4 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | | Manse at Cove | Cove | | | Scotland | Date unknown | ![Item 5 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1842 | City and County Buildings and second Merchants' House | | | Glasgow | Scotland | S & W sections including second Merchants' House | ![Item 6 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1844(?) | National Bank of Scotland and Square of Business Chambers | Shawlands | | Glasgow | Scotland | Competition design (probably), though it may relate to Municipal Buildings proposal of 1873 | ![Item 7 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1846 | Abattoir, north side | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 8 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1846 | Dodridge Farm House | Hopetoun | | West Lothian | Scotland | | ![Item 9 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1846 | St Leonards | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 10 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | After 1846 | Abattoirs and Meat Market | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Original abbatoirs | ![Item 11 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1848 | Anderston Free Church | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 12 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1848 | Barony Poorhouse | Foresthill | | Glasgow | Scotland | Original building (including porter's lodge) | ![Item 13 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1848 | Inverdon | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 14 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1848 | Victoria Park feuing | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 15 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1849 | Biggar Parish School | Biggar | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 16 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1849 | Justiciary Court Houses | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Reconstruction | ![Item 17 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1849 | School | Alloway | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 18 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1849 | Schoolhouse | Alloway | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 19 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1850s(?) | Cambusdoon House | Alloway | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Plans drawn up for vinery | ![Item 20 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1852 | Triangular block of shops, Jail Square | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 21 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1853 | North British Insurance (Assurance) Office | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 22 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1854 | Ayr Fort feuing | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 23 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1854 | Jedburgh Free Church | Jedburgh | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | | ![Item 24 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1854 | Caledonian Insurance Office | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 25 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1855 | Market Inn | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations | ![Item 26 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Bakery buildings | | | | Scotland | | ![Item 27 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Brisbane Villa | | | Ayrshire? | Scotland | Porch | ![Item 28 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Dalziel Parish School | Dalziel | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 29 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Dolphinton House and lodge | | | Peeblesshire | Scotland | Gate lodge - perhaps prepared plans for work on house as well and certainly for greenhouse. | ![Item 30 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Gatelodge for Mr Kerr | Gareloch | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | | ![Item 31 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Gothic villa for Mr Montgomrie [sic] | | | | | | ![Item 32 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Hayston House, Lodge | Kirkintilloch | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | | ![Item 33 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Hunthill House | Jedburgh? | | Roxburghshire? | Scotland | Alterations, screen in corridor etc | ![Item 34 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Hunthill House, stable offices | Jedburgh | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | | ![Item 35 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Italian villa for Robert Henderson | | | Belfast | Northern Ireland | | ![Item 36 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Kayenne Cottage | Dunoon | | Argyll | Scotland | | ![Item 37 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Lady Belhaven's School | Wishaw | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 38 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Large villa at Blantyre Farm | Blantyre | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 39 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Mission Church | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 40 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Mission Church | Gorbals | | Glasgow | Scotland | Plans drawn up - not selected | ![Item 41 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Monument to Mr Robertson | Dunoon | | Argyll | Scotland | | ![Item 42 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Royal Theatre | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 43 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Shopfront for Arnott & Co | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 44 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Stanley Villa | Pollokshields | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 45 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Tombstone for J S Fleming | Campsie | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | | ![Item 46 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Villa | Campsie | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | | ![Item 47 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Villa for Mr Murdoch | | | | | | ![Item 48 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1855 | Villa for Thomas Reid | Garliston | | Lanarkshire? | Scotland | | ![Item 49 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1857 | Ledcameroch | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 50 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1857 | Lochbrae | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 51 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1857 | St Germains | Bearsden | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 52 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1858 | Baronscourt Church | | | Ulster | Northern Ireland | | ![Item 53 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1858 | Skelmorlie Parish Church | Skelmorlie | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Transept added to old church (now the hall) | ![Item 54 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1859 | Abington House | | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 55 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1859 | Justiciary Court Houses | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Further reconstruction work | ![Item 56 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1859 | Seafield House and lodge | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 57 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1860s | Abattoir, south side | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Plans drawn up | ![Item 58 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1860s | Hawick Corn Exchange | Hawick | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | Plans drawn up - not executed | ![Item 59 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1860s | Motherwell First (United) UP Church | Motherwell | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Prepared plans - but John Grahame Peat secured commission | ![Item 60 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1860 | Arkleton House | Langholm | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Original house | ![Item 61 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1860 | Corn Exchange | Jedburgh | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | George Bell responsible | ![Item 62 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1860 | Darlington Place UP Church | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 63 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1860 | Milton Rooms | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Conversion of Milton Rooms to Magnet Music Hall | ![Item 64 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1860 | Water Office | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 65 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1861 | Glasgow Royal Infirmary Surgical Hospital | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Added to Adam's infirmary | ![Item 66 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1861 | Hamilton Burgh Buildings | Hamilton | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 67 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1862 | Blantyre Parish Church | Blantyre | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 68 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1862 | Scottish National Albert Memorial | | | Edinburgh | Scotland | Competition design | ![Item 69 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1863 | Slaughter Houses, Market Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations | ![Item 70 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1866 | Property at High Street and Exchange Street | Jedburgh | | Roxburghshire | Scotland | | ![Item 71 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1866 | Manchester Town Hall | | | Manchester | England | Competition design | ![Item 72 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1867 | Alexandra Music Hall | Cowcaddens | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 73 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1867 | Ayr Cemetery, Monument to Rev.James Stevenson | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 74 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1867 | Langbank UP Church | Langbank | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | Competition design | ![Item 75 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1867 | Theatre Royal | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Original building - Bell responsible. | ![Item 76 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1868 | City and County Buildings and second Merchants' House | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Additions to the east (Brunswick Street) | ![Item 77 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1868 | Jamestown Parish Church | Jamestown | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Blantyre design reused | ![Item 78 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1870 | Girvan UP Church | Girvan | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 79 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1871 | City and County Buildings and second Merchants' House | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Northern section - Council Chambers and Municipal Offices in Ingram Street | ![Item 80 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1871 | St Andrews Free Church | Kirkintilloch | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | | ![Item 81 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1872 | Hillhead Town Hall | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 82 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1873 | Fish Market | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 83 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1873 | Johnstone Memorial Church | Springburn | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 84 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1874 | Lenzie Chapel of Ease | Lenzie | | Dunbartonshire/Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 85 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1874 | Premises, Cadogan Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 86 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1875 | Clyde Spinning Mill | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 87 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1875 | Partick, Hillhead and Maryhill Joint Hospital for Infectious Diseases | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Original building | ![Item 88 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1877 | Ayr Town Hall | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Extension to High Street, and alterations - placed second in competition | ![Item 89 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1877 | Drill Hall and Headquarters for 1st Lanark Rifles | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 90 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | June 1877 | Trades House | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Plans for new building submitted for invited competition; subsequently abandoned after failure to reach a decision | ![Item 91 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1878 | Ayr Academy | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 92 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1878 | Houses for James McLauchlan | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 93 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1880 | Skibo Castle | Skibo | | Sutherland | Scotland | Reconstruction | ![Item 94 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1880 | Redheugh | Kilbirnie | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 95 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1881 | Trochraigue House | Girvan | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Addition | ![Item 96 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1881 | Glasgow Municipal Buildings | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Competition design entered under the pseudonym Clutha | ![Item 97 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1883 | Paisley County Buildings (Sheriff Court), Meeting Room and Offices | Paisley | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | Won in competition | ![Item 98 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1884 | Arkleton House | Langholm | | Dumfriesshire | Scotland | Alterations - HS suggests that house might be by Andrew MacQueen and gives NMRS as reference | ![Item 99 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1884 | Dalnair House | Drymen | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | Buildings of Scotland wrongly ascribes this to James Bell, as does HS List | ![Item 100 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1884 | Dalnair House Lodge | Drymen | | Stirlingshire | Scotland | | ![Item 101 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1884 | Seaman's Institute | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 102 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1885 | Adamton | Monkton | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 103 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1886 | 42-50 Gordon Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 104 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1890 | Paisley County Buildings (Sheriff Court), Meeting Room and Offices | Paisley | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | Extension in St James Street (making the façade asymmetrical) | ![Item 105 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1890 | Redheugh | Kilbirnie | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Additions | ![Item 106 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1890 | Titwood Bowling Club | Titwood | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 107 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1890 | Royal Bank of Scotland, Candleriggs | | | Glasgow | Scotland | George Bell II responsible | ![Item 108 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1890(?) | Schools | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 109 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1891(?) | School for Govan School Board | | | Glasgow | Scotland | May not have been involved - information from Alexander E Diack's RIBA nomination papers, which are unclear as to whether he was assisting Clarke & Bell or John Gordon at the time | ![Item 110 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1891(?) | Warehouse, Argyle Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | May not have been involved - information from Alexander E Diack's RIBA nomination papers, which are unclear as to whether he was assisting Clarke & Bell or John Gordon at the time | ![Item 111 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1891 or 1892 | Homes | Nitshill | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 112 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1891 or 1892(?) | School for Glasgow School Board | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 113 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1892 | City and County Buildings and second Merchants' House | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Reconstruction of former Council Chambers and Municipal Buildings on Ingram Street as Sheriff Courts | ![Item 114 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1892 | Tenements, Garnet Street and Buccleuch Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 115 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | After 1892 | Bagatelle | Greenock | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | | ![Item 116 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1893 | City Sawmills | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 117 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1894 | Fyfe Chambers | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 118 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1894 | Warehousing and Bank of Scotland at ground floor | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 119 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | After 1894 | North Kelvinside Secondary School | North Kelvinside | | Glasgow | Scotland | or Clarke & Bell & R A Bryden? - conflicting information on assistants' RIBA nomination papers | ![Item 120 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1895 | Drill Hall and Headquarters for 1st Lanark Rifles | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Further work | ![Item 121 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | After 1895 | Warehouse for H Morrison | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 122 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | After 1895 | Weekly Mail Building | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 123 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1897 | A & G Thomson's Warehouse | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations to create restaurant | ![Item 124 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | After 1897 | Port Glasgow improvement scheme | Port Glasgow | | Renfrewshire | Scotland | | ![Item 125 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1898 | North British Daily Mail Building | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 126 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Bonhill Parish Church | Bonhill | | Dunbartonshire | Scotland | Plans for alterations? | ![Item 127 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Bothwell UP Church | Bothwell | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | Plans drawn up | ![Item 128 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Campbell's Music Salon | | | Glasgow | Scotland | New entrance | ![Item 129 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Commercial Bank of Scotland, Trongate | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Plans drawn up | ![Item 130 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Design for a villa for Mr McNeill | Ayr | | Ayrshire | Scotland | | ![Item 131 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | East Kilbride UP Church | East Kilbride | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 132 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Hotel | | | | Scotland | Plans drawn up | ![Item 133 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | House | | | | Scotland | Plans prepared | ![Item 134 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | House | | | | Scotland | Plans drawn up | ![Item 135 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Leck's Property | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Plans drawn up | ![Item 136 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Manse | Wishaw | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 137 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Mr Adam Bryden's Cottage, Rachan Mill | Biggar (near) | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 138 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Mr Bannatyne's house | | | | | | ![Item 139 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Mr Keir's Villa | Garscadden | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 140 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Mr McCubbin's Villa | Langside Hill | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 141 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Mr Monteith's villa | Ascog | Bute | Argyll & Bute | Scotland | | ![Item 142 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Mr Robert Bell's villa | Wishaw | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 143 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Offices, West Nile Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Alterations? | ![Item 144 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Rachan | Biggar | | Lanarkshire | Scotland | | ![Item 145 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Reformed Presbyterian Church | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 146 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Robertson Memorial Church | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 147 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Mid 1800s | Springburn Manse | Springburn | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 148 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | c. 1900 | Adamton | Monkton | | Ayrshire | Scotland | Additions | ![Item 149 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Late 1900 or early 1901 | Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Competition design submitted after invitation - Bell submitted J H Craigie's design rather than one by himself - unsuccessful but placed second by professional staff | ![Item 150 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1901 | Workshop, Commerce Street | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Rebuilding after a fire | ![Item 151 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1902 | A & G Thomson's Warehouse | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Additions - 2 floors added | ![Item 152 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1903 | Kelvinhaugh Sawmills | | | Glasgow | Scotland | Water tower | ![Item 153 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1904 | Caledonia Foundry, Office block for Kerr & Co | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 154 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1904 | Two blocks of tenements including Hayburn Vaults Bar | Partick | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 155 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | 1904 | Warehouse for Philip McSorley/MacSorley | | | Glasgow | Scotland | | ![Item 156 of 156](images/table_item.gif) | Before 1906 | Villas, Pollokshields | Pollokshields | | Glasgow | Scotland | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this : | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | ![Item 1 of 4](images/table_item.gif) | Glasgow Contemporaries | 1901 | Glasgow Contemporaries at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century | | | R A Bryden | ![Item 2 of 4](images/table_item.gif) | Walker, Frank Arneil | 1986 | South Clyde Estuary: An Illustrated Architectural Guide to Inverclyde and Renfrew | | | p19 | ![Item 3 of 4](images/table_item.gif) | Who's Who in Architecture | 1914 | | | | | ![Item 4 of 4](images/table_item.gif) | Who's Who in Glasgow | 1909 | | | | George Bell II |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this : | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | ![Item 1 of 9](images/table_item.gif) | Builder | 22 January 1887 | | | | ![Item 2 of 9](images/table_item.gif) | Builder | 12 November 1887 | | | | ![Item 3 of 9](images/table_item.gif) | Builder | January 1889 | | | Obituary of Clarke | ![Item 4 of 9](images/table_item.gif) | Builder | 21 April 1906 | | | Obituary of Bryden | ![Item 5 of 9](images/table_item.gif) | Builder | 1915 | 109 | | p312 Obituary of George Bell II | ![Item 6 of 9](images/table_item.gif) | RIBA Journal | 28 April 1906 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | p340 Obituary of Bryden | ![Item 7 of 9](images/table_item.gif) | RIBA Journal | 6 November 1915 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | Bell obituary | ![Item 8 of 9](images/table_item.gif) | RIBA Journal | 21 June 1930 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | J H Craigie obituary p598 | ![Item 9 of 9](images/table_item.gif) | Scotsman | 3 June 1904 | | | For dissolution of Clarke & Bell partnership |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this : | | Source | Archive Name | Source Catalogue No. | Notes | ![Item 1 of 3](images/table_item.gif) | Courtesy of Mark Turnbull, Clive Lucas Stapleton & Partners, Sydney | Information sent to Dictionary | | Sent December 2014 | ![Item 2 of 3](images/table_item.gif) | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Clarke & Bell Album (drawings trimmed to fit, address, dates & titles cut away) | | | ![Item 3 of 3](images/table_item.gif) | State Library, New South Wales | Sketchbook and scrapbook of architectural plans and tracings | | |
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