Friends and their guests are cordially invited to join us on a visit to the iconic Queen’s Cross Church, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and home of the CRM Society. Queen’s Cross was designed at the start of Mackintosh’s extraordinary creative period from 1895-1906, in the same year as the first phase of Mackintosh’s masterpiece, The Glasgow School of Art (1897–9), the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in London and his first work for Miss Cranston. It reveals a sophisticated handling of form, ornament, and symbolic meaning, even at this relatively early date. Dr Thomas Howarth, Mackintosh’s first biographer, wrote of the church: ‘the building possesses a warmth and charm conspicuously absent from many churches of the period due largely to the traditional simplicity of Mackintosh’s architectural forms and to the mysticism and spirituality of his decorative motives.’
Friends will enjoy a guided tour of this iconic building, complemented by a talk from Stuart Robertson FRSA, Director of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society. Afterwards, tea, coffee and cakes will be served.
