General view
GW 251
Description General view
Date 2/1965
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number GW 251
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 749428
Scope and Content Main entrance front, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, No 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow Gartnavel Royal Hospital was built in the early 1840s when Glasgow's first mental asylum in Parliamentary Road was deemed too small to cope with the needs of this rapidly expanding industrial city. An imposing, Tudor-style institution, Gartnavel was designed by Charles Wilson (1810-63), a Glasgow architect. This shows part of the castellated façade of Wilson's original building. It was designed in two parts, working class patients in the East House and wealthier patients in the West. The two were to be linked by a chapel and arcade but the chapel, designed by Sir John James Burnet (1857-1938) was not built until 1904. Originally designed to accommodate 420 patients in a combination of single rooms, small wards and day rooms, the hospital's capacity had already been raised to 600 by 1847. Overcrowding demanded that expansion continue with additions such as the 80-bed Henderson House built in 1959. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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