General view. Digital image of GW/248
SC 749426
Description General view. Digital image of GW/248
Date 2/1965
Collection Records of the Scottish National Buildings Record, Edinburgh, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 749426
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of GW 248
Scope and Content Gartnavel Royal Hospital, No 1055 Great Western Road, Glasgow Gartnavel Royal Hospital in Glasgow was built in the early 1840s when it was decided that the city had outgrown its first mental hospital in Parliamentary Road. Designed by Charles Wilson (1810-63), Gartnavel was a model asylum of the period. Its design was copied by the Board of Lunacy for the early District Asylums. This shows part of the castellated façade of this imposing, Tudor-style institution, built on an elevated site. The original plan consisted of two main buildings, one for 'pauper lunatics' and another for wealthier patients. It consisted of single rooms, small wards and wide corridors used as day rooms. A more humanitarian approach towards the treatment of mental illness emerged in the latter part of the 18th century. Between 1780 and 1840 seven Royal Asylums were built in Scotland. Glasgow's Parliamentary Road asylum was the fourth, designed by William Stark, and granted a Royal Charter in 1824. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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