Architecture Notes

Event ID 689922

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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This is the post-1870 location of the University of Glasgow. See also NS56NE 33.

Architect:

John Baird - new college buildings 1846 - 1847 at Woodland Hill

Prop. Hunterian Museum 1846

Library 1846

Edward Blore 1847 - 1849 - prop new college buildings at Woodland Hill

George Gilbert Scott & J Oldrid Scott 1865 - 1878 - including Bute Hall & Hunterian Museum

Smith & Wharrie 1867 - prop new college buildings

John James Burnet - new college buildings 1868

Sir John Burnet 1895 - Engineering block

Sir John James Burnet 1901 - 1903 - surgical laboratory

MacWhannel & Rogerson 1903 - new medical buildings

Sir John James Burnet 1908 - 1911 - gymnasium

John Burnet & Sons:

1924 - 1930 - prop addition to chapel

1925 Hunter Memorial

1921 - 1923 Natural History Museum

1915 - Tower

1923 - West wing

1923 - Zoology

Archibald Dawson - sculpture

Harold Hughes & D S R Hughes - 1938 Humanity classroom and Reading Room

Alexander Wright 1951 - alterations to Veterinary college

John Keppie & Henderson & J L Gleave 1949 - 1957 - Engineering block

C J McNair, Elder & Ramsay - new arts building 1953

A N Paterson & Stoddart - Students' Union. 2nd prize for design

Alex N Paterson - University Press Office

John Burnet & Lesk - Westerland Pavilion

REFERENCE:

Glasgow University Library Archives

John Burnet & Sons

1924 - 1930 - plans of chapel

1925 - plans for Hunter Memorial

1921 - 1923 - plans for Natural History Museum

1923 - survey of old college stair

1915 - plans for tower

1925 - plans for West wing

1923 - plans for Zoology

Harold Hughes & D R Hughes

1938 - plans for Reading Room and Humanity classroom

John Baird

1846 - 1847 - plans for designs for new college buildings at Woodland Hill

1846 - plans for prop Hunterian Museum

1846 - plans for new library

Edward Blore

1847 - 1849 - plans for designs for new college buildings at Woodland Hill

George Gilbert Scott & J Oldrid Scott

1865 - 1878 - plans for prop new college buildings, Bute Hall & Hunterian Museum

C J McNair, Elder & Ramsay

1953 - plans for new arts building

Sir John Burnet

1895 - 1914 - plans for Engineering block

John Keppie & Henderson & J L Gleave

1949 - 1957 - plans for Engineering

John James Burnet

1868 - plans for new college buildings

Smith & Wharrie

1867 - plans for prop new college buildings

MacWhannel & Rogerson

1903 - plans for new medical buildings

Alexander Wright

1951 - plans for alterations to Veterinary college

A N Paterson & Stoddart

- plans for design for Students' Union

William Inglis

- plans of Students' Union

John Burnet & Lesk

- plans of Westerlands Pavilion

REFERENCE:

Scottish Record Office

Scottish Universities Commission. Memorial and report on the buildings on Glasgow University and a statement of the University Court and Senatus Academicus [printed]

1860 - 1861

GD 220/6/560/31 - 34

National Portrait Gallery

Glasgow and Lanarkshire Illustrated 1910 (Cat 1935 C/July 1946) p5