Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565264
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565264
Asylum Section Gartloch Hospital, Gartloch Road, 1889, Thomson & Sandilands
Competition win for the City of Glasgow District Asylum, by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's son John and his Beaux-Arts-trained partner Robert Douglas Sandilands. A luxury asylum for 500 paying mental patients, with central administration offices and huge water towers, plus less elaborate scattered annexes for the mentally ill poor and for the original nurses' homes, dining and recreation areas, workshops and other facilities. French Renaissance with Scots Baronial details. Jacobean internal stair balustrades, Art Nouveau leaded glass stair windows. Ground-floor dado-panelled and elaborately decorated Boardroom, with Jacobean fireplaces. Inset bronze plaque lists members of the City of Glasgow Lunacy Board. Similar Baronial ornamental details on Dining & Recreation block and exterior of Boiler House and Workshops Block. Closed 2002 and partly demolished, awaiting new use.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
