Miss Cranston Willow Tea Rooms

The willow tea rooms trust was established in 2014 as a charity with the aim of acquiring miss cranston s tea rooms at 217 sauchiehall street glasgow the building is now in ownership of the trust.

Miss cranston willow tea rooms.

The tea rooms are modelled on kate cranston s ingram street tea rooms from the early 1900s recreating the fabulous interiors from the white dining room and the chinese blue room. Inspired by the works of charles rennie mackintosh the willow tea rooms at 97 buchanan street is the place to go when out and about in the city centre. Charles rennie mackintosh had been born in glasgow in 1868 and when kate cranston first commissioned him to design the wall murals of her buchanan tearooms he was only 28. Our tea rooms are open daily monday to saturday 9am to 5pm and sundays 10am 5pm.

The name sauchiehall is derived from saugh the scots word for a willow. With a selection of loose teas and freshly ground coffees freshly made cakes scones soups and sandwiches there s plenty to choose from all enjoyed in the stunning historic surroundings designed by charles rennie mackintosh for miss kate cranston. Now that the trust have succeeded in restoring the building to its former glory it continues to focus its effort on the advancement of the arts heritage and culture by. The willow tearooms opened at 217 sauchiehall in october 1903.

Mackintosh at the willow operates as a not for profit social enterprise creating training learning employment and other opportunities and support for young people and communities. Located at 215 217 sauchiehall street the original willow tearooms building has undergone an extensive restoration in a bid to return the building to its former glory of when it originally opened in 1903. Catherine cranston 27 may 1849 18 april 1934 widely known as kate cranston or miss cranston was a leading figure in the development of tea rooms she is nowadays chiefly remembered as a major patron of charles rennie mackintosh and margaret macdonald in glasgow scotland the name of miss cranston s tea rooms lives on in reminiscences of glasgow in its heyday. Celia was inspired by pioneering glasgow businesswoman miss cranston who in 1903 commissioned the young and still largely unknown mackintosh to design the luxurious cutting edge tea rooms with.

Welcome back to the willow tea rooms. The street and surrounding area are part of the new town of blythswood created largely by william harley of blythswood square in the early 1800s. The willow tea rooms are now recognised as a masterpiece of mackintosh design but when they opened in 1903 they were branded with miss cranston s name and few knew much about the designer. The location selected by miss cranston for the new tearooms was a four storey former warehouse building on a narrow infill urban site on the south side of sauchiehall street.