Photographic copy of N and E elevations.
GWD 12/8 P
Description Photographic copy of N and E elevations.
Date c. 1840
Collection Records of Charles Wilson, architect, Glasgow, Scotland
Catalogue Number GWD 12/8 P
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of GWD 12/8
Copies SC 695093
Scope and Content Drawing showing elevations to north and east, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, No 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow The foundation stone of Gartnavel Royal Hospital was laid on 1 June 1842. Designed by Glasgow architect, Charles Wilson (1810-63), this imposing Tudor-style institution replaced Glasgow's first Royal Asylum for lunatics in Parliamentary Road which had grown too small to meet the city's needs. This shows a drawing of the east and north elevations made by Wilson c.1840. East House was built for working class patients and was to be connected to the separate West House, for wealthier patients, by a chapel and arcade. Although part of Wilson's original design, the chapel was not built until 1904. Following a period of rapid industrial expansion in Glasgow, Dr William Hutcheson, Superintendent of the city's first Royal Asylum from 1838, decided that a new mental hospital had to be built to house the ever expanding numbers of mentally ill patients. A new site at Gartnavel Farm was acquired in 1839. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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