Faculty Hall, 68 West George Street, Glasgow

Faculty Hall, located at 68 West George Street in Glasgow, was designed by Charles Wilson in 1854 and showcases Venetian Renaissance architecture. The building features three bays facing West Nile Street and five bays along West George Street, with an additional return bay to Nelson Mandela Place. The exterior is made of painted ashlar, with a channelled ground floor and vertically tooled angles and window surrounds. A plinth rises to a cill band at the ground floor level.

All the windows are casement and roundheaded. The entrance at No 68 West George Street is pilastered and arched, adorned with sculpted relief spandrels. Keyblocks with carved heads of law lords by A Handyside Ritchie are present at the ground floor. The ground floor also features a triglyph frieze, guttae, and a mutule cornice. A balustraded balcony is located on the first floor, which is blind at the north and east bays in Nelson Mandela Place and includes panelled pedestals with rosettes.

On the first floor facing West George Street, coupled Corinthian columns frame roundheaded windows set in sculpted cavetto recesses. Venetian windows are found on West Nile Street and in the first three bays from the south on Nelson Mandela Place, flanked by single Corinthian columns with shell-headed niches in the outer bays. The eaves feature a richly sculpted frieze, a dentil band, and a modillion cornice, topped with a balustraded parapet. The northern remaining bay is simplified on the upper floors. The entrance at No 62 West George Street mirrors the details of No 68, with a blind window above and a semi-engaged colonnade on the first floor that stops at the third bay from the south on St George's Place.

Inside, there is a Genoese staircase with a cast-iron balustrade and a carved handrail. The first-floor library is coved and columned, retaining its original fittings and furniture. An extension to the library was added by T Harold Hughes in 1940.