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I've never been too clear exactly what these animals on the front of the former bank building at Bridgeton Cross are, but I love them none-the-less.

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The heads of two griffin-like creatures on the corbles of a former Victorian Bank building.

Absolutely love the piercing stare and the motion of the roar of this beautifully sculpted lion on 125 St Vincent Street in Glasgow.

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A sculpture of a roaring lion on a Glasgow commercial building.

This rather beautiful ironwork grotesque is from J.J. Burnet's 1906 stable and servants' quarters at 1 Park Gardens Lane in the west end of the city.

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I love this little bat on the Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church on Kelvinhaugh Street in Glasgow. I wonder how many people have walked past this church in the 170 years since it was built and haven't noticed the bat nestled into the overhang beside one of the doors.

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A small bat carved onto the facade of a Victorian church.

Sometimes it seems Glasgow's architecture is infested with owls. This one's above the entrance to the Randolph Buildings on the University's Gilmorehill Campus.

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A sculpted owl above the entrance to a university building in Glasgow.

Love this very cute, and sleepy-looking, owl nestled in the foliage on a column capital of Glasgow University Memorial Chapel.

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A small sculpted owl nestled in a column capital of a blonde sandstone building.

I love this column capital featuring an owl and a mouse on the doorway of the 1930s Tennent Memorial Building on the former Western Infirmary site in the West End of Glasgow. It was created by the sculptor Archibald Dawson.

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A sculpted owl and a mouse on a column capital of a 1930s building.

Love this cute little creature came across on the old Dumbarton Academy and Burgh Halls on Church Street in Dumbarton. The buildibgs date frlm the 1860s ans were dealigned by the Glasgow architects Melvin and Leiper.

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A cute creature carved into the column capital of a Victorian building.

This is probably my favoutite fish sculpture in Glasgow. It's beside the door of the old Western Infirnary outpatients dispensary building on Church Street.

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A two-tailed fish sculpture on a Victorian building.

Animals in the darkness of Glasgow's Mercat Cross. While based on an ancient design, the current monument was only built in 1930.

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Two animal sculptures on the bannister of Glasgow's Mercat Cross.

Love this magnificent sleeping lion at the 19th Century mausoleum built for Alexander, the 10th Duke of Hamilton. It was sculpted by David Bryce.

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Looking up at the face of a beautifully sculpted sleeping lion.

I love this little carving on the door of Bank of Scotland Chambers on Saint Vincent Street (now occupied by the Drum and Monkey). Designed by Andrew Balfour and Stewart, it was built in the 1920s.

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A carved wooden panel on the door of a 1920s building featuring two inverted dolphin fish.

Love this door handle I came across in the Park District in the West End of Glasgow.

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A door handle of indeterminate age shaped like a sinuous, sea serpent like creature.

Until yesterday, I'd never noticed these wonderful intertwined Celtic creatures below the feet of Saint Mungo on the entrance to the Glasgow University Union on University Avenue. It's a beautiful little design detail.

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Two intertwined creatures forming a Celtic knot sculpted from blonde sandstone.

love this little creature at the end of the nameplate on the remains of John Honeyman's 1870s Rockvilla Public School in the north of Glasgow.

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A small creatures sculpted from stone on the ruins of a Victorian school building.

I love this keystone sculpture above one of the entrances to the former meat and cattle market at Graham Square in Glasgow. The market was originally designed by John Carrick and built in the 1860s and 70s.

#glasgow #architecture #bull #glasgowbuildings #gallowgate #animalsinarchitecture

A bull's head on a keystone over the entrance of a Victorian meat market.

This rather amazing woodwork is part of a front door on Prince's Terrace in the Dowanhill area of the West end of Glasgow. The terrace was designed by James Thomson and was built around 1870, but the door was apparently added during a re-fit in 1880.

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I absolutely love this little owl on a Georgian townhouse on Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow. It was built in the 1830s, but the owl appears to be part of later alterations. Thanks to Niall Murphy of the Glasgow City Heritage Trust for pointing it out during his recent talk on the architect J.J. Burnet.

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I love this lion I came across today at the base of a lectern in the Govan Old Parish Church in Glasgow.

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A prone lion forming the foot of a lectern in a Glasgow church.

I ran into this cute little guy on the base of an arch above a side entrance to the Gothic Revival Coats Memorial Church in Paisley. I love it when I stumble across architectural details like this.

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