General view from NW.
B 31904
Description General view from NW.
Date 2/1988
Catalogue Number B 31904
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 749414
Scope and Content Gartnavel Royal Hospital, No 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow, from north-west Gartnavel Royal Hospital was a model asylum built in the early 1840s. It was designed by Charles Wilson (1810-63) a Glasgow architect, influential in the development of the city. Gartnavel replaced Glasgow's first lunatic asylum in Parliamentary Road, designed by William Stark, which the city had outgrown. This shows the imposing Tudor-style facade of this vast institution built on an elevated site on what had been Gartnavel Farm. Built on a plan of single rooms, small wards and wide corridors used as day rooms, the hospital has not been easy to modify for modern use but is centrally placed within the city. In 1838, under Dr William Hutcheson, Superintendent of Glasgow Royal Asylum for Lunatics, Stark's building was deemed too small to cope with the needs of a rapidly expanding industrial city. Gartnavel was operational by 1843, the old hospital becoming a poorhouse before being demolished in 1908. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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