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St Aloysius' College Buildings

The Chandlery Building (1866)

The Chandlery Building is the original Garnethill home of the College and the Jesuit Community when it moved from Charlotte Street in September 1866.

Built in Italianate palazzo style, the building was originally an Episcopalian school and was extensively rebuilt and extended when the Jesuits acquired it. The imposing front entrance originally faced Dalhousie Lane. The interior gathers around a spectacular staircase and lightwell. The Chandlery Building is grade B listed.

Today the Chandlery Building accommodates the school administration, library and refectory.

The building is named after Fr Peter Chandlery SJ who was Head Master from 1882-1888.

The Hanson Building (1908 and 1926)

The Hanson Building is in fact a collection of major and minor extensions to the original school in the Chandlery Building. The wing on Scott Street was completed in 1908. The space between this new wing and the Chandlery Building was filled with classrooms, a chapel and the gym hall in 1926 replacing the original tin hut church. Space fronting Hill Street on the second and third floors was filled by Coia Architects in the 1960s and four new classrooms were added backing onto the Glasgow School of Art in 1990.

Today the Hanson Building accommodates classrooms for languages and the humanities. The orginal school chapel and gym hall remain.

The buildings are named after Fr Eric Hanson SJ who was Head Master from 1901-1926.

The Mount Building (1848)

The Mount was origianlly a fashionable private house but was extended and converted to be Glasgow's hospital for sick children in 1882. During the Great War it was used for Polish refugees and in 1919 was bought by the Sisters of Mercy for their school.

It was acquired by the College in 1984 to house the Primary Department which was moving from Langside. The Junior School remained in the Mount Building until June 1998.

Today the Mount Building accommodates music, art and drama and the Kindergarten.

The Junior School (1998)

St Aloysius College Junior School (1998)

The new Junior School building was opened in August 1998, winning the prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Award for Architecture in 1999, the only school in Scotland to do so. The building was designed by Dick Cannon and uses glass-sided balconies and walkways to set classrooms off from a light and spacious central atrium.

The Junior School building accommodates the class and specialist rooms for 400 children in P1-P7.

The Clavius Building (2002)

The Clavius Building was opened in August 2002.

The Clavius Building accommodates twelve laboratories for biology, chemistry and physics, eight maths classrooms and four IT rooms, together with a large open area for social events.

The building is named after Fr Christopher Clavius SJ (1537-1612), Jesuit mathematician and scientist.

The Clavius Building won the Royal Institute of British Architects' Award for Architecture in 2004.

St Aloysius' Church (1910)

St Aloysius' Church was built in 1910 to a late Renaissance design by the Belgian architect Charles Menart, who designed a number of other churches in Scotland at about the same time.

The marble cladding and interior decoration was not carried out until 1927. Ernest Schaufelburg, an Austrian, was the architect for the work which made St Aloysius one of the most finely decorated churches in the City of Glasgow.

Visitors

All of the College buildings are open to the public on Glasgow's annual Doors Open Day.