Alexander Greek Thomson Glasgow buildings, Strathclyde architect, Scotland, 19th century Scottish homes

Alexander Greek Thomson Glasgow buildings

post updated 15 March 2025

Key Greek Thomson Buildings

Alexander Greek Thomson Glasgow buildings, listed in order of perceived architectural importance:

St Vincent Street Church, west Glasgow, Scotland

building photo © Adrian Welch
St Vincent Street Church

Caledonia Road Church, Gorbals, south Glasgow

building photo © Adrian Welch
Caledonia Road Church – ruined building

Egyptian Halls, 84-100 Union Street, central Glasgow

84-100 Union Street building image from developers
Egyptian Halls

Grosvenor building, 62-80 Gordon Street, central Glasgow

building image © Adrian Welch
Alexander Thomson building – very close to Egyptian Halls

1-10 Moray Place, Glasgow, Scotland
Date built: 1861
Design: Alexander Greek Thomson, architect

photo : Twospoonfuls, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Moray Place
The Alexander Thomson family moved into 1 Moray Place in 1861, on completion of the initial terrace of ten houses. Alexander “Greek” Thomson eventually died at this address.

Glasgow Buildings by Alexander Thomson

Alexander Greek Thomson Glasgow buildings, listed alphabetically:

Buck’s Head Building, 63 Argyle St – 1862-63
Caledonia Rd Church – 1856-57 (disused)
Double Villa, The, 25a Mansionhouse Rd – 1857
Egyptian Halls 84-100 Union St – 1871-73
Great Western Terrace – 1869
Grecian Chambers, 336-356 Sauchiehall St – 1865
Grosvenor Building, 72-80 Gordon St – 1859
Holmwood House, 61 Netherlee Rd, Cathcart – 1858
Knowe, The, Albert Drive, Shields Rd – 1853
Lilybank house extension – 1869
Maria Villa, Langside – 1861
Moray Place – 1861
Nithsdale Road, 200 – 1871
North Park Terrace – 1866
Oakfield Avenue, 41-53 – 1865
Otago Street, 94-106 – 1874
Queen’s Park United Presbyterian Church, Langside Rd – 1869 (destroyed)
St Vincent St Church, 265 St Vincent St – 1859
Walmer Crescent – 1857
Watson Street Warehouse, 118-126 Watson St – 1880-2003 (destroyed)
Westbourne Terrace, 21-39 Hyndland Rd – 1871
West Nile Street, 99-107 – 1858

Buildings by Greek Thomson outside Glasgow

Arran View, off Commonhead Street, North Airdrie, Scotland
Date built: 1867
Three-storey tower and attendant wings have Italianate massing with
Greco-Egyptian typical Greek Thomson detailing, built for Gavin Black
Motherwell. Arran View was converted by Ian Bridges Architect(s) into
flats in 1987.

Cairnhill House, Cairnhill Road, Cairnhill, Airdrie, Scotland
Date built: 1841
Alexander Thomson worked on this building only as apprentice to John Baird

Tor House, Rothesay, Bute, Scotland
Date built: 1867

More projects by Alexander Greek Thomson online soon

Alexander Greek Thomson – famous Glaswegian architect

Alexander Thomson Architect

Alexander Thomson is one of the most accomplished British architects of the nineteenth-century. He is frequently seen in opposition to fellow Glasgow architect Mackintosh due to the latter’s greater fame in the last few decades.

First Church:
Caledonia Road United Presbyterian Church
Location: junction of Caledonia Road & Cathcart Road.
The church started life as a United Presbyterian Church with adjoining tenements but became a United Free. It became Hutchesontown and Caledonia Road United Free in 1924.

A computer model of the Alexander Thomson’s Queen’s Park United Presbyterian Church interior was created for The Lighthouse’s first exhibition, in 1999. Queen’s Park Church was hit by a bomb in 1944, and burnt down.

Murray Grigor made a film about Alexander Thomson called Ninevah on the Clyde, following his earlier film about Rennie Mackintosh Architect.

Location: Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Necropolis Exhibition

The derelict Southern Necropolis gatehouse and cemetery, famous for its connection to Alexander Thomson, is to be restored as a centre for tracing family roots if an £800k plan goes ahead. Gorbals Heritage and Environment Trust unveils its re-roofing and refurbishment plan: St Francis Centre, Cumbernauld St.

Greek Thomson Photos © Adrian Welch, except Scholarship image

Demolished Queen’s Park Church : Queen’s Park United Presbyterian Church building, Glasgow.

A catalogue of 3D visualisations of a destroyed church interior by the C19th Scottish architect Alexander Greek Thomson – Website: www.scran.ac.uk/dl/ale/al

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The Alexander Thomson Society – Website: www.greekthomson.com

Alexander Greek Thomson Competition

Alexander Thomson Hotel