Glasgow, Gartloch Hospital, Asylum Block
Hospital Block (19th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, Gartloch Hospital, Asylum Block
Classification Hospital Block (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Gartloch Asylum; Administration Block; Treatment Villas; Dining And Recreation Hall; Link Corridors; Bathroom Blocks; Sanitary Annexes
Canmore ID 164308
Site Number NS66NE 29
NGR NS 68469 67141
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/164308
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Cadder (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
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
NS66NE 29.00 NS 68469 67141
NS66NE 29.01 NS 68422 67096 Laundry
NS66NE 29.02 NS 68434 67084 Rear laundry block
NS66NE 29.03 NS 68440 67094 Tank
NS66NE 29.04 NS 68441 67113 Boiler house
NS66NE 29.05 NS 68430 67116 Chimney
NS66NE 29.06 NS 68475 67211 Workshop, N block
NS66NE 29.07 NS 68478 67170 Workshop, S block
NS66NE 29.08 NS 68359 67135 Hospital administration block
NS66NE 29.09 NS 68346 67111 Hospital
NS66NE 29.10 NS 68376 67005 Nurses home / Pharmacy block
See also
NS66NE 30 NS 68045 66966 New nurses home
NS66NE 31 NS 68153 67409 West lodge
NS66NE 61 NS 68238 67110 Mortuary
NS66NE 62 NS 68182 66991 Superintendent's house
