Carnegie Clinic

The Carnegie Clinic sits next to the baths, at 65 Inglis Street, and was meant to be read with them. Historic Environment Scotland lists this Category B building as a finely constructed institutional design by H. and D. Barclay of Glasgow, 1909–12, in a free Renaissance manner with crowstepped gables, paid for by Andrew Carnegie as a “College of Hygiene and School Clinics.” It adjoins the Carnegie Centre at its north-west corner, so the two gifts form one civic group at the Pilmuir Street / Inglis Street junction.

The street elevations are in sandstone ashlar, with mullioned and transomed windows, moulded band courses, a pierced parapet and an entrance with a round-arched fanlight on Inglis Street. HES describes an eclectic mix of Renaissance, Scottish, Baroque and Jacobean references. It was built, like the baths, out of Carnegie’s wish to improve public health in the town that had adopted the Free Libraries Act and taken his park.

Current clinical services and opening times are not part of the heritage listing, and shouldn’t be guessed from the historic name. If you need a clinic appointment, use NHS or the official service pages; if you’re walking the Carnegie buildings, this is the quieter neighbour of the leisure centre, worth looking at as a pair. The interest is the architecture and the purpose it was built for — hygiene and school clinics — in the same years as the baths and the later Carnegie Hall.