Miss Cranston S Ingram Street Tea Rooms

The sauchiehall willow tearooms.

Miss cranston s ingram street tea rooms.

This was the third cranston tea room mackintosh worked on. 2 despite the extensive alterations and additions made ingram street remained a leased property. In 1900 miss cranston commissioned him to redesign an entire room in her ingram street tearooms which resulted in the creation of the white dining room. Catherine cranston 27 may 1849 18 april 1934 widely known as kate cranston or miss cranston was a leading figure in the development of tea rooms she is nowadays chiefly remembered as a major patron of charles rennie mackintosh and margaret macdonald in glasgow scotland the name of miss cranston s tea rooms lives on in reminiscences of glasgow in its heyday.

Created in 1886 miss cranston s ingram street tea rooms continued in the food catering tradition for over sixty years. Patrons entering the dining room from ingram street had to pass through a hallway separated from the room by a wooden screen with leaded glass inserts offering tantalising glimpses of the. Mackintosh carried out six phases of work at miss cranston s lunch and tea rooms on ingram street between 1900 and 1912. The willow tea rooms trust was established in 2014 as a charity with the aim of acquiring miss cranston s tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow the building is now in ownership of the trust.

The tea rooms are modelled on kate cranston s ingram street tea rooms from the early 1900s recreating the fabulous interiors from the white dining room and the chinese blue room. The timber lined room was saved from demolition in 1971 and the 800 carefully numbered wooden components were packed away in the city council s stores until glasgow museums. Charles rennie mackintosh had been born in glasgow in 1868 and when kate cranston first commissioned him to design the wall murals of her buchanan tearooms he was only 28. Now that the trust have succeeded in restoring the building to its former glory it continues to focus its effort on the advancement of the arts heritage and culture by.

The crown luncheon room in argyle street 1886. Miss cranston s tearooms on ingram street continued in use as catering facilities from 1930 for cooper s co then in 1950 the rooms came into the ownership of glasgow city council and were used for storage and a souvenir shop. Advertised in the glasgow post office directory as miss cranston s tea rooms at 205 and miss cranston s lunch rooms at 209. At buchanan street and argyle street he had designed wall decoration furniture and fittings.

In 1971 the furnishings were removed into storage when the. The oak room interiors designed for miss cranston s ingram street tearooms in glasgow in 1907 show architect charles rennie mackintosh at the height of his success. Ingram street tearoom 1896. Buchanan street tearooms 1903.

Inspired by the works of charles rennie mackintosh the willow tea rooms at 97 buchanan street is the place to go when out and about in the city centre. In 1950 glasgow corporation acquired the ingram street building and the tea rooms were used for storage.