Hutchesons' Hall

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Hutchesons' Hall

The Hutcheson 'Hall , formerly Hutcheson' Hospital is a former hospital, and today's restaurant in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1966 the building was included in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.

history

The Glasgow lawyers George and Thomas Hutcheson donated the funds to set up a school for impoverished boys and a hospice for old men. This gave birth to the Hutchesons 'Grammar School and the Hutchesons' Hospital. Originally located at a different location, the hospital moved to its current location in 1805. Scottish architect David Hamilton provided the design . In 1876 the interior was modernized according to a design by John Baird . In the meantime passed to the National Trust for Scotland , the building was restored in the 1970s or 1980s. After a library, a school and shops had been housed in the building in the meantime, it had been empty since 2008. A storm had damaged Hutchesons' Hall and water entered. It was restored in 2014 and has been home to restaurants ever since. The total cost was £ 1.3 million.

description

It is the corner house between Ingram Street and John Street in central Glasgow. It's at the head of Hutcheson Street . The masonry of the classicist , three-story building is rusticated on the ground floor . The five axes wide main facade along Ingram Street is more intricately ornamented. The central entrance portal is designed in a Doric style. Corinthian columns and pilasters set back on the upper floor structure the facade in the style of a colonnade . Statues of the two founders, which James Colquhoun created for the original building in 1649, rest in flanking aedicules .

A square tower with a slim helmet sits on top of the building. Its edges are decorated with paired Tuscan columns that support a cornice . The tower is continued above this. Tower clocks are used on all sides. The pointed helmet begins above the Ionian rotunda. It closes with a gold-plated globe with a cross.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ^ Entry in the Gazetteer for Scotland
  3. ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
  4. ↑ Information on glasgowarchitecture.co.uk

Web links

Commons : Hutchesons' Hall  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 55 ° 51 ′ 35.7 "  N , 4 ° 14 ′ 51.2"  W.