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Former Police Offices & Barracks:
Completed in 1895, this large ashlar masonary building was a public works design by the city architect Alexander Beith McDonald (1847-1915). The large building was originally Police offices and barracks as can be ascertained from the Semper Vigilo - always vigilant mottowith the thistle detail over the Oxford Street doorway. Latterly the Strathclyde Police Training College, the building is currently occupied by a variety of users in cluding the Salvation Army. The entire building has been painted a garish pink except for the small bell tower (see photos below), and the building as a whole is in a somewhat tired condition. Grade B listing.

street address: 71 Oxford Street, Glasgow, G5 9EP
Latitude / Longitude: 55.852996,-4.255383 (sourced using Google Maps)

north front facade on Oxford Street to the left with 4 window bays to each side of the 5 window bay central entrance, and the west facade to the right on Oxford Lane

central entrance on the north facade with numerous carved elements

crest and 'semper vigilo' motto above the central element of the north facade

carving above the doorway

further carving on the north facade

view of the east and north elevations

north end of the east elevation with another doorwayonto Nicholson Street

balcony over the east elevation door, and the heavily flaked paint

view looking north along the east facade

view through a window on the east elevation looking through the building of the internal open courtyard

south end of the east elevation

south-west corner of the building with its plain brickwork instead of ashlar

bell tower atop the building, one of the few parts not painted pink

view north along the west elevation up Nicholson Lane

north end of the west elevation

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