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Gartloch Hospital Former Mortuary, Gartloch Road, Glasgow

A Category B Listed Building in Glasgow, Glasgow

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.8791 / 55°52'44"N

Longitude: -4.1078 / 4°6'27"W

OS Eastings: 268238

OS Northings: 667110

OS Grid: NS682671

Mapcode National: GBR 3Y.2PB3

Mapcode Global: WH4Q8.WH3C

Plus Code: 9C7QVVHR+JV

Entry Name: Gartloch Hospital Former Mortuary, Gartloch Road, Glasgow

Listing Name: Gartloch Road, Gartloch Hospital Former Mortuary

Listing Date: 14 June 1991

Category: B

Source: Historic Scotland

Source ID: 377954

Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33870

Building Class: Cultural

ID on this website: 200377954

Location: Glasgow

County: Glasgow

Town: Glasgow

Electoral Ward: North East

Traditional County: Lanarkshire

Tagged with: Architectural structure

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Description

Thomas and Sandilands, c1892-6, simple symmetrical single storey mortuary building for the asylum. French Renaissance style red sandstone.

PRINCIPAL ELEVATION: Base course, string course serving as transom thin stringcourse above lintel, eaves cornice. Central 2-leaf panelled door with blind stone-arched head, set in splayed arch with moulded head; entrance bay breaking eaves with parapet bounded by finialed blocks.

SIDE ELEVATION: windowless galbed with stack at centre, arched moulding at apex grid moulding below.

REAR ELEVATION: 3-bay. Centre bay with semi-circular window flanked by arched-headed tripartite windows in outer bays.

Statement of Interest

See also Gartloch Hospital, Asylum Section, Hospital Section and Original Nurses Home.

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