Serving the community since 1895…

Designed in the Scottish Renaissance style by the renowned Scottish architect, Sir Robert Rowand Anderson (1834-1921), Pollokshaws Burgh Hall was built between 1895 and 1898. Other Anderson works in Glasgow include the Central Hotel and the Pearce Institute.

The Hall was commissioned, paid for and gifted to the local community by Sir John Stirling Maxwell. It was built on a site within the Pollok Estate, which had been owned for more than 700 years by the Maxwell family. Sir John was a politician, a philanthropist and a founding member (in 1931) of The National Trust for Scotland.

Externally, the stone-built Hall, which is category ‘A listed’ as being of national architectural and historic importance, has several similar features to the Old College buildings (the original University of Glasgow), established in 1451 on the High Street. Those buildings were demolished over 400 years later when the University was relocated to Gilmorehill, in the west end of the city and not long before the designs were being drawn for the Burgh Hall.

The building, with its crow stepped gables, distinctive square clocktower and various carvings of monograms and mottos relating to the Maxwell family, stands within a landscaped garden and parking area.

The Burgh Hall is now owned by Glasgow City Council and leased to a Charitable Trust which manages the building.