The iconic main building of Glasgow University in Autumn, above Kelvingrove Park. This building, opened in 1870, but not completed until 1886, was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott RA, and is now called the Gilbert Scott Building.
Is is a well-known landmark in Glasgow and serves as the Main Building of the University.
George Gilbert Scott was the leading Gothic Revival architect, and despite some oppostion from Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, who gave a lecture to the Glasgow Architectural Society on 18 April 1864 entitled, The Unsuitableness of Gothic Architecture to Modern Requirements, the chair of the Removal and Buildings Committee, was particularly interested in the Gothic revival, so the commission was given to Scott, who said:
“I adopted a style which I may call my own invention being already initiated it in the Albert Institute at Dundee. It is simply a 13th or 14th century Secular style with the addition of Scottish features belonging in that Country to the 16th century though in reality derived from the French style of the 13th & 14th centuries.”
Sir George Gilbert Scott, RA
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