The occasional building/sculpture within Glasgow's ever-changing city scene is an in situ artefact, a moment from a bygone era, like the Angel Building with its golden angel of commerce and industry (or if you prefer, poetics and due diligence) at the Old Toll Cross on Paisley Road West.
In fact, Glasgow has its fair share of these in situ artefacts: much of its city centre being something of a skansen to Victorian architectonics. The stonework alone on some of these structures is mind-boggling for its diligence and artistry. Which makes this golden angel, whose creator has been forgotten (!!), all the more poignant. Though the architects of the Angel Building itself are known, apparently, there is no record of the sculptor of the angel herself.
Which kind of adds to the mystery and the beauty...
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