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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)

south elevation onto Dumbarton Road

carved stone plaque

south and east elevations, with the 1960s Sir Basil Spence designed tower in the background

prominent window bay on Dumbarton Road

elaborate relief sculpture by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

main entrance at the south-east corner

freestanding arch over the entrance

large window bay with the vertical ciculation visible behind the glass

sculptural relief by James Pittendrigh Macgillivray

view south down the east facade

north-east corner of the building

upper window bay on the east facade

corinthian column capital detail

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