Tennent Memorial Block, Western Infirmary, 38 Church Street, Glasgow

Norman A Dick (Burnet Son and Dick), 1935. Sculptor A Dawson.

3-storey, 11-bay rectangular-plan interwar Beaux-Arts medical building arranged 2-7-2. Central bays recessed and raised. Snecked, squared rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins and plinth. Moulded cill course at 1st floor; corniced eaves course, raised to central 7 bays. Central entrance with lintel relief tablet "THE TENNENT MEMORIAL 1935" and flanking escutcheons supported on barley-sugar columns with richly sculpted capitals. Relieving arch with ashlar blocks and carved key block, flanking seated figures, elliptically-headed window in arch. Regular fenestration with rectangular windows in moulded surrounds, those at 1st floor with relieving arches. Relief tablet above single outer bays.

Metal casement windows with glazing bars, 8-light to ground floor, 4-light horizontal above. Some lying pane glazing at 1st and 2nd floors.

INTERIOR: plain interior with some later alteration providing office and patient accommodation. Central stair opening off lobby behind main entrance.

BOUNDARY WALLS: stepped snecked rubble, ashlar coped boundary wall with wrought-iron railings.