22 Park Circus,
Woodlands Hill,
1872-74,
James Boucher

Situated on the corner of Park Circus and Park Street South, number 22 was built between 1872-74 to Charles Wilson's design by James Boucher for Walter MacFarlane, owner of the Saracen foundry.

Park Circus is at the heart of Charles Wilson's masterplan for the area. Once the homes of leading Glasgow industrialists, many of the buildings have been converted to offices. The house at number 22 survives as a marriage suite.

Redecorated in 1899 by James Salmon and J. Gaff Gillespie who have created one of the best examples of the Glasgow Style.

The entrance to number 22 is formed by a timber panelled door flanked by stained glass windows. On the door, carved decoration and iron hinge straps in an Art Nouveau style.

The lower hall is an open space with an arcaded gallery at first floor level supported on Corinthian columns. A number of corridors lead of from the main hall, the most lavish being roofed with saucer domes and arcaded with arches over columns.

MacFarlane's Saracen Ironworks contributed the cast iron glazed dome over the upper hall. The dome is supported on Corinthian columns with ornately decorated scallops over the arches.

This is a detail, depicting a scene of tiger hunting with elephants, from the tiled wall panels in the marriage suite.

The principal rooms are now used for marriage ceremonies. In this suite the carved timber decoration is probably by Derwent Wood, possibly by Hodge and Keller as well.

This is detail of the carved wood chimney piece in a distinctively Glasgow Style.

Another of the rooms has panelled walls with an elaborate tiled wall panel frieze and dark stained Art Nouveau woodwork.

At the rear of the building is a conservatory, constructed with a cast iron frame, made by MacFarlane's.