Love this decorative carving on the corbel of a tenement oriel window on Saracen Street in Possilpark.

A ghost building on Robertson Street in Glasgow. I love all the different phases visible in the stone and brickwork, especially the window at the top right which is made from blonde sandstone and then has been half filled with red bricks and half with concrete blocks, presumably at different times. This effect may have taken between 100 and 150 years to create.

Love the two different ancient Greek style friezes above and below this tenement bay window in the North Kelvinside area of Glasgow. The lower one features anthenion or stylised palm fronds, while the upper one features a repeated geometric design.

Love the two different ancient Greek style friezes above and below this tenement bay window in the North Kelvinside area of Glasgow. The lower one features anthenion or stylised palm fronds, while the upper one features a repeated geometric design.

I love the intertwined numbers you get on date plaques of late Victoria and Edwardian buildings in Glasgow. I particularly like the way the zero hangs off the nine on this one from a tenement on Bridgegate.

Sculpted oak leaves and acorns on the spandrel of an entrance arch to the former tannery building on Saint Andrew's Square in the East End of Glasgow. It was built in the 1870s for John Inglis and Company. Love the quality of this stonework.

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Love this red sandstone decorative gargoyle on William Leiper's 1886 Simple Gothic style Hyndland Parish Church in the West End of Glasgow. The way it was catching the late afternoon light today made it really stand out

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I love the ornate street numbers you can find on Glasgow's ornate Victorian and Edwardian commercial buildings. This one is on the former New City Road Glasgow Savings Bank building in Cowcaddens. It's unusual in having a stained glass window behind it with a design which seems to integrate directly with the stonework in front of it.

Old and new grotesques on the corbels of St Mary's Cathedral in Glasgow. The new ones were created during its restoraton and feature likenesses of members of its congregation and clergy, as well as those who worked it.

Love this circular window and surrounding stonework above the entrance to 37 High Street in Glasgow.

Love this ornate and unique column capital on Doune Gardens in the West End of Glasgow, featuring a rather cute little owl.

Love this decorative carving on the corbel of a tenement oriel window on Saracen Street in Possilpark. These types of decorations are not typical of Glasgow, but you do find them occasionally on buildings across the city. This one is amongst the best I've come across so far.

Love this Art Nouveau date plaque on a keystone above the entrance to Albert Chambers on Bath Street in central Glasgow.

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.

Three keystone heads on the 1897 Mercantile Chambers on Bothwell Street in Glasgow. Great stonework, but you wouldn't want to run into these guys after closing time on Friday night out!