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Charles Menart


Charles Jean Ménart (c. 1876 – 1938) was a Belgian architect who worked in Scotland in the early 20th century and specialised in designing Roman Catholic churches in the Baroque Revival style.

He was born in Belgium around 1876 and went on to study at the Glasgow School of Art from 1893 to 1898. He later settled in Perth. However, in 1903, he moved to Glasgow and went into partnership with John Stirling Jarvie from Perth, calling the business, Menart & Jarvie. Jarvie previously worked for John Archibald Campbell and John Burnet.

On 16 December 1908, Ménart became a member of Glasgow Institute of Architects. From about 1907 onwards he did more and more work for the Archdiocese of Glasgow and the Diocese of Aberdeen, work that would normally have gone to Pugin & Pugin's. A lot of his work was in the Baroque Revival style, providing an alternative to the Gothic Revival architecture of some of his contemporaries.

He also produced secular buildings such as banks, tenements and shops; an example of this work being a development of a row of buildings from 10 to 12, the High Street, Perth, Scotland.

Some of his works include:

St Aloysius Church, Glasgow

St Joseph’s Church, Helensburgh


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