This three-storey purpose-built block of 1978–81 is occupied by the Wingate Institute of Neurogastroenterology, formerly known as the Gastrointestinal Science Research Unit of the London Hospital Medical College, and now part of the Barts and London School of Medicine and Dentistry. The enterprise was originally supported by a gift from the Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation, which covered the costs of constructing a specialized building for research on gastroenterology. Designs were produced by the Hospital Design Partnership in association with Gordon Tait, architect. Faced with dark-brown bricks, the block contained laboratories and offices over two storeys and a raised basement. It was raised a storey and remodelled to designs by Molyneux Kerr Architects in 2002–4 when the building was renamed in recognition of the generosity of the Wingate Foundation.1
www.icms.qmul.ac.uk/neurogastro/department/index.html: Royal London Hospital Archives, RLHMC/A/21/121: Tower Hamlets planning applications online ↩