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Glasgow, 62 Church Street, Western Infirmary, Outpatients And Dispensary
Hospital (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, 62 Church Street, Western Infirmary, Outpatients And Dispensary
Classification Hospital (20th Century)
Canmore ID 268898
Site Number NS56NE 4844
NGR NS 56388 66696
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/268898
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Govan (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Project (4 May 2016 - 10 June 2016)
NS 56450 66655 (centred) Pre-demolition Basic survey of 23 individual buildings associated with the former Western General Hospital, University of Glasgow Gilmore Hill Campus. Five of the buildings are Grade B Listed. External and internal photographic survey carried out to provide appropriate mitigation for Stage 2 Architectural Watching Brief during demolition.
Information from M. Cressey - CFA Archaeology Ltd.
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-256203
Standing Building Recording (4 May 2016 - 10 June 2016)
The Category B Listed Outpatients Building was designed by Sir John James Burnet (c.1913). It is a single storey Scots Renaissance medical building with prominent crowstepped gables facing onto Church Street. The rear east-facing gable is crow-stepped ashlar sandstone with a moulded oculus window at its centre. On the south side of the crow step is a balustraded cornice. The north-facing elevation has dormer windows with ball finials. Both elevations have been compromised by later intrusions.
The west-facing elevation onto Church Street is of square and snecked rubble with paired paired crow-stepped gabled bays and a small octagonal corner tower at the north end. An architraved entrance has a fleur-de-lis decorated panel with a sculpted panel inscribed ‘Glasgow Western Infirmary Outdoor Dispensary’. The large segmented arched windows once lit two laboratories on the ground floor.
The interior of the Outpatients Building has been modernised but at its core is the former dispensing hall, which later became the waiting room. The waiting room has been subdivided, but it maintains its original open and airy aspect and many of the original Arts and Crafts period features, including large riveted metal roof beams and corbel supports embellished with ceramic winged heads and an arcade of segmented arches with rusticated vousoirs flanking a well lit aisle with offices and staircases leading off. On the first floor the main corridor had been tiled.
Information from M. Cressey - CFA Archaeology Ltd.
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-256203
