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View of entrance gateway. Digital image of GW/246
SC 749425
Description View of entrance gateway. Digital image of GW/246
Date 2/1965
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 749425
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of GW 246
Scope and Content Entrance gateway and lodge, Gartnavel Royal Hospital, No 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow Gartnavel Royal Hospital was built in the early 1840s to replace Glasgow's original Royal Asylum, designed by William Stark in the early 1800s and already too small to cope with the needs of a rapidly expanding industrial city. Charles Wilson (1810-63), a prominent Glasgow architect, designed Gartnavel. This shows the impressive entrance gateway to Gartnavel. The gate lodge was designed by Sir John James Burnet (1857-1938) and built in 1898-9. Burnet also designed the chapel of the hospital which had formed part of Wilson's original design but was not built until 1904. Glasgow's first Royal Asylum was one of seven built in Scotland between 1780 and 1840. These institutions became so overcrowded that the 1857 Lunacy (Scotland) Act set up a Board of Lunacy responsible for the care of 'pauper lunatics'. The Board copied the design of Gartnavel for early District Asylums. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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