Hutchesons' Hall
Neoclassical charity hall with a tall steeple and seventeenth-century statues of its founding brothers.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Hutchesons' Hall in Glasgow's Merchant City is about the two seventeenth-century stone figures on its facade: George and Thomas Hutcheson, the lawyer brothers who left money for a hospital for old men and a school for poor boys. It follows the statues from hidden niches on the old Trongate hospital, through storage, to the Ingram Street front, and into an old argument over what they were carved from. Stand across Ingram Street, where both niches are in view.
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