Anderson College - Medical School:
Italianate building designed by architects James Sellars and latterly by John Keppie after Sellars died. The new home for Anderson's College Medical School the building opened in 1899. The building is adorned by several fine sculptures by the sculptor James Pittendrigh Macgillivray (1856-1938). In 1947 the school became part of Glasgow University who still own and run the building to this day. The building underwent an extensive refurbishment in the 1990s.
street address: 56 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow, G11 6NU
Latitude / Longitude: 55.870205,-4.296568 (sourced using Google Maps)
site visit date: 18 March 2012
south elevation onto Dumbarton Road (18/03/2012)
carved stone plaque (18/03/2012)
south and east elevations, with the 1960s Sir Basil Spence designed tower in the background (18/03/2012)
prominent window bay on Dumbarton Road (18/03/2012)
elaborate relief sculpture by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray (18/03/2012)
main entrance at the south-east corner (18/03/2012)
freestanding arch over the entrance (18/03/2012)
large window bay with the vertical ciculation visible behind the glass (18/03/2012)
sculptural relief by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray (18/03/2012)
view south down the east facade (18/03/2012)
north-east corner of the building (18/03/2012)
upper window bay on the east facade (18/03/2012)
corinthian column capital detail (18/03/2012)
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