Editing University of Glasgow (section)

===Gilmorehill===
[[File:University, Glasgow, Scotland, ca. 1895.jpg|thumb|right|The new buildings of the University of Glasgow at Gilmorehill, circa 1895.]]
[[File:University of Glasgow Gilbert Scott Building - Feb 2008.jpg|thumb|The night view of the university's main building]]

In 1870, the university moved to a (then [[greenfield land|greenfield]]) site on Gilmorehill in the West End of the city, around {{Convert|3|mi|km|0|spell=on|abbr=off}} west of its previous location, enclosed by a large [[meander]] of the [[River Kelvin]]. The original site on the High Street was sold to the [[City of Glasgow Union Railway]] and replaced by the college [[goods yard]]. The new-build campus was designed by Sir [[George Gilbert Scott]] in the [[Gothic revival]] style. The largest of these buildings echoed, on a far grander scale, the original High Street campus's twin-[[quadrangle (architecture)|quadrangle]] layout, and may have been inspired by [[Ypres]]' late-medieval [[cloth hall]]; Gilmorehill, in turn, inspired the design of the Clocktower complex of buildings for the new [[University of Otago]] in New Zealand. In 1879, Gilbert Scott's son, [[John Oldrid Scott|Oldrid]], completed this original vision by building an open [[undercroft]] forming two quadrangles, above which is his grand Bute Hall (used for examinations and graduation ceremonies), named after its donor, [[John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute]]. Oldrid also later added a spire to the building's signature [[gothic architecture|gothic]] [[bell tower]] in 1887, bringing it to a total height of some {{convert|278|ft|order=flip}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://glasgowuniversity.wordpress.com/tag/dusk/|title=Dusk &#124; Photos from Glasgow University|publisher=Glasgowuniversity.wordpress.com|access-date=3 February 2014|archive-date=3 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203015116/http://glasgowuniversity.wordpress.com/tag/dusk/|url-status=live}}</ref> The local [[Bishopbriggs]] blond sandstone cladding and Gothic design of the building's exterior belie the modernity of its [[Victorian era|Victorian]] construction; Scott's building is structured upon what was then a cutting-edge riveted [[steel frame|iron frame]] construction, supporting a lightweight wooden-beam roof. The building also forms the second-largest example of Gothic revival architecture in Britain, after the [[Palace of Westminster]]. An illustration of the Main Building previously featured on the reverse side of [[Banknotes of the pound sterling|£100 notes]] issued by [[Clydesdale Bank]].<ref name="scotbanks">{{cite web |title=Banknote world example |url=https://www.banknoteworld.org/scotland-100-pounds-sterling-banknote-2001-p-229-d.html |access-date=30 October 2008 |publisher=The Committee of Scottish Clearing Bankers |archive-date=14 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230614145357/https://www.banknoteworld.org/scotland-100-pounds-sterling-banknote-2001-p-229-d.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The university's [[Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery|Hunterian Museum]] resides in the Main Building, and the related Hunterian Gallery is housed in buildings adjacent to the University Library.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/visit/attractions/ |title=About us: visit us: visitor attractions |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=9 September 2014 |archive-date=10 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910195947/http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/visit/attractions/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The latter includes "The Mackintosh House", a rebuilt terraced house designed by, and furnished after, architect [[Charles Rennie Mackintosh]].

Even these enlarged premises could not contain the expanding university, which quickly spread across much of Gilmorehill. The 1930s saw the construction of the award-winning round Reading Room (it is now a category-A [[listed building]]) and an aggressive program of house purchases, in which the university (fearing the surrounding district of Hillhead was running out of suitable building land) acquired several terraces of Victorian houses and joined them together internally. The departments of Psychology, Computing Science, and most of the Arts Faculty continue to be housed in these terraces.
[[File:History department.jpg|thumb|left|200 px|The School of History building occupies what were formerly townhouses on University Avenue.]]
More buildings were built to the west of the Main Building, developing the land between University Avenue and the River Kelvin with natural science buildings and the faculty of medicine. The medical school spread into neighboring [[Partick]] and joined with the [[Western Infirmary]]. At the eastern flank of the Main Building, the James Watt Engineering Building was completed in 1959. The growth and prosperity of the city, which had originally forced the university's relocation to [[Hillhead]], again proved problematic when more real estate was required. The school of veterinary medicine, which was founded in 1862, moved to a new campus in the leafy surrounds of Garscube Estate, around {{Convert|2|mi|0|spell=in}} west of the main campus, in 1954. The university later moved its sports ground and associated facilities to Garscube and also built student halls of residence in both Garscube and [[Maryhill]].

The expected growth of tertiary education in the 1960s following publication of the [[Robbins Report]] led the university to build numerous modern buildings across Hillhead in a development zone, originally comprising mainly residential tenements, that had been designated on the north side of University Avenue in 1945.<ref name="story-maths">{{cite web |title=Mathematics Building |url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=66 |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |date=7 March 2017 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320020138/https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=66 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="story-orr">{{cite web |title=Boyd Orr Building |url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=40 |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |date=19 February 2015 |archive-date=16 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221016191753/https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=40 |url-status=live }}</ref> Several of these new buildings were in the [[Brutalist architecture|brutalist]] style; the Mathematics Building at the west end of University Avenue (opened 1968, demolished 2017),<ref name="story-maths" /> the [[Macquorn Rankine|Rankine]] Building at the east end of University Avenue (opened 1970),<ref name="story-rankine">{{cite web |title=Rankine Building |url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=18 |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |date=25 August 2014 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320020140/https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=18 |url-status=live }}</ref> the multipurpose [[Adam Smith]] Building (opened 1967)<ref name="story-smith">{{cite web |title=Adam Smith Building |url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=70 |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |date=28 January 2015}}</ref> on the crest of the hill above University Gardens, and the new Queen Margaret Union building (opened 1968) on the University Gardens site previously occupied by the University Observatory.<ref name="story-qmu">{{cite web |title=Queen Margaret Union |url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=19 |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |date=27 November 2015 |archive-date=8 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208172918/https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=19 |url-status=live }}</ref> These were joined by others in various [[Modern architecture|modernist]] styles; both the Library and [[John Boyd Orr|Boyd Orr]] Building (opened 1968 and 1972 respectively)<ref name="story-orr" /><ref name="story-library">{{cite web |title=Library |url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=69 |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |date=5 August 2015 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320020140/https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=69 |url-status=live }}</ref> were configured as tower blocks, as was the Genetics Building at the very south end of the campus on Dumbarton Road (opened 1967, named for [[Guido Pontecorvo]] in 1994, demolished 2021),<ref name="story-genetics">{{cite web |title=Pontecorvo Building |url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=42 |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |date=15 July 2015 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320020143/https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=42 |url-status=live }}</ref> while the amber-brick Geology Building (opened 1980, named for [[John Walter Gregory]] in 1998, renamed for [[Silas Molema]] in 2021) was built to a low-rise design on the former site of eight terraced houses in Lilybank Gardens.<ref name="story-geology">{{cite web |title=Molema Building |url=https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=45 |website=The University of Glasgow Story |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |date=19 October 2021 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320020137/https://universitystory.gla.ac.uk/building/?id=45 |url-status=live }}</ref> 

To further cater to the expanding student population, a new [[refectory]]—known as the Hub—was opened adjacent to the library in 1966, and the Glasgow University Union building at the eastern end of University Avenue was extended in 1965.

In October 2001 the century-old Bower Building (previously home to the university's botany department) was gutted by fire. The interior and roof of the building were largely destroyed, though the main façade remained intact. After a £10.8 million refit, the building re-opened in November 2004.

The [[Wolfson Medical School Building]], with its award-winning glass-fronted atrium, opened in 2002,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/mus/wolfsonmedicalschool/ |title=School of Medicine: Undergraduate Medical School: Wolfson Medical School Building |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=26 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140603013739/http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/medicine/mus/wolfsonmedicalschool/ |archive-date=3 June 2014 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> and in 2003, the St Andrews Building was opened, housing what is now the School of Education. It is sited a short walk from Gilmorehill, in the [[Woodlands, Glasgow|Woodlands]] area of the city on the site of the former Queens College, which had in turn been bought by [[Glasgow Caledonian University]], from whom the university acquired the site. It replaced the St Andrews Campus in [[Bearsden]]. The university also procured the former Hillhead Congregational Church, converting it into a lecture theatre in 2005. The Sir Alwyn Williams building, designed by Reiach and Hall, was completed at Lilybank Terrace in 2007, housing the School of Computing Science.

In September 2016, in partnership with [[Glasgow City Council]], [[Glasgow Life]], and the [[National Library of Scotland]], the transformed [[Kelvin Hall]] was brought into new public use including in Phase I the Hunterian Collections and Study Centre.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kelvinhall.org.uk/|title=Kelvin Hall|website=kelvinhall.org.uk|access-date=21 September 2016|archive-date=4 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180504220217/https://kelvinhall.org.uk/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Mathematics Building, on University Way adjacent to the Boyd Orr Building, was demolished in 2017 to make way for a new 'Learning Hub' intended to provide individual and group study spaces for more than 2,500 students, as well as a 500-seat lecture theatre. Built at a cost of £90.6{{nbsp}}million, it opened in April 2021 and is named for [[James McCune Smith]], the first African American to earn a degree in medicine and a University of Glasgow alumnus.<ref>{{cite web |title=Campus Development – James McCune Smith Learning Hub |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/campusdevelopment/jamesmccunesmithlearninghub/ |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |archive-date=15 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415171201/https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/campusdevelopment/jamesmccunesmithlearninghub/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="cd2018">{{cite web |title=Building a campus fit for a world-changing university |url=https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/campusdevelopment/ |publisher=University of Glasgow |access-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001220445/https://www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/campusdevelopment/ |archive-date=1 October 2018}}</ref> A further investment of over £900{{nbsp}}million is being made across the Gilmorehill campus, focused mainly on redeveloping the {{convert|14|acre|hectare|order=flip|adj=on}} site between University Avenue and Dumbarton Road that was occupied by the [[Western Infirmary]] between 1874 and 2015.<ref name="cd2018"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Glasgow University to expand main Gilmorehill campus |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21504870 |access-date=19 March 2023 |work=BBC News |publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation |date=19 February 2013 |archive-date=22 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522130550/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-21504870 |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Chapel====
{{Main|University of Glasgow Memorial Chapel}}
[[File:University of Glasgow Chapel.jpg|left|thumb|Interior of the Chapel]]
The University Chapel was constructed as a memorial to the 755 sons of the university who had died in the First World War. Designed by [[John James Burnet|Sir John Burnet]], it was completed in 1929 and dedicated on 4 October. Tablets on the wall behind the Communion Table list the names of those who died, while other tablets besides the stalls record the 405 members of the university community who gave their lives in the Second World War. Most of the windows are the work of [[Douglas Strachan]], although some have been added over the years, including those on the South Wall, created by Alan Younger.

Daily services are held in the chapel during term-time, as well as seasonal events. Before Christmas, there is a Service of [[Nine Lessons and Carols]] on the last Sunday of term, and a [[Watchnight service]] on Christmas Eve. Graduates, students, members of staff, and the children of members of staff are entitled to be married in the chapel, which is also used for [[baptism]]s and funerals. [[Civil marriage]]s and [[Civil partnership in the United Kingdom|civil partnerships]] may be blessed in the chapel, although under UK law may not be performed there.{{Verify source|date=December 2018}}

The current [[chaplain]] of the university is the Reverend Stuart MacQuarrie, and the university appoints honorary chaplains of other denominations.

====Library and archives====
{{main|Glasgow University Library}}
[[File:GlasgowUniversityLibrary2017.jpg|thumb|The university's library as of 2017]]

Glasgow University Library is situated on Hillhead Street opposite the Main Building. The current 12-storey building was opened in 1968 and hosts approximately 2.5 million books and journals, and provides electronic resources, including over 50,000 electronic journals. It houses sections for periodicals, microfilms, special collections and rare materials.<ref name="library">{{cite web|url=http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/librariesmuseumsandarchives/|title=Libraries, museums and archives|publisher=University of Glasgow|access-date=13 May 2014|archive-date=13 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513090827/http://www.gla.ac.uk/about/librariesmuseumsandarchives/|url-status=live}}</ref>

In addition to the main library, subject libraries exist for Medicine, Chemistry, Dental Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Education, Law, History of Art, and the faculty of Social Sciences, which are held in branch libraries around the campus.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web |url=http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/timeline/index.html |title=Glasgow University Library Timeline |publisher=Special.lib.gla.ac.uk |access-date=22 January 2011 |archive-date=1 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110101014930/http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/timeline/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2007, a section to house the library's collection of historic photographs was opened, funded by the [[Wolfson Foundation]].<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

The [[Archives of the University of Glasgow]] maintains the historical records of the university, created and accumulated since its foundation in 1451.