Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow

The Henry Wood Hall in Glasgow is located in the Kelvingrove neighbourhood in the city's West End. The building, a former Congregational church, is a distinctive feature on the landscape with its Gothic Victorian spire. Originally designed by John Honeyman and completed in 1864,[1] the hall was the main base, rehearsal and recording studio for the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scotland's national symphony orchestra, for over thirty years until their 2015 move[2] to the RSNO centre within the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, where most of their performances in the city now take place.

Henry Wood Hall

The orchestra originally played in the city's St. Andrew's Hall, until the hall was destroyed by fire in 1962, then the SNO played in a series of venues of varying suitability. Finally in 1979, the redesign of the Trinity Church in Claremont Street[3] gave the SNO a permanent home of its own: the SNO Centre and Sir Henry Wood Hall.[4]

The RSNO moved to a purpose-built extension at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in November 2015,[5][6] although Henry Wood Hall had been put up for sale in mid-2012.[7] Soon after, the congregation of the Tron Church at Bath Street (previously based at St George's Tron Church in Buchanan Street before a schism over attitudes towards same-sex marriages among members of the clergy in 2012) purchased the building and put it back into use as a place of worship, now called The Tron at Kelvingrove.[8]