General view of main block from ESE
SC 776764
Description General view of main block from ESE
Date 8/11/2001
Catalogue Number SC 776764
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of E 3854 CN
Scope and Content Main Building, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the east-south-east This large, imposing Jacobean-style main hospital building was built on an E-plan, with a long south-facing front of mullioned windows. It has three storeys and a basement, and has its centrepiece, end bays and centre-length bays advanced. Access to the terraced lawns is by a flight of stone steps (left). The Royal Asylum of Montrose was founded in 1781 by Mrs Susan Carnegie of Charlton for the treatment of private and pauper lunatics, and was the first purpose-built psychiatric institute in Scotland. Prior to this, insane patients had been housed in the Old Tolbooth in the High Street. In 1858 the asylum was transferred to Moffatt's new building on the lands of a farm at Sunnyside, and named Carnegie House after the founder of the old asylum. The new building cost £27,513, and was built in the Jacobean style Moffatt often adopted. When the lease of the farmlands expired in 1911, 52 acres were purchased for the hospital at a cost of £4,500. Sunnyside Royal Hospital, designed by the architect, William Lambie Moffatt (1808-82), was built in 1855-7 on a hillside site 6km north of Montrose to replace the old Royal Asylum in the town. The new site was further developed in 1888-91 when a hospital block, designed by the architects, Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, was built to the north-west of the main building, and a large villa, Carnegie Lodge, designed by the Aberdeen architect, William Kelly (c.1861-1944), was added to house private patients. Another two villas, Howden Villa and North Esk Villa, were built in the early 1900s to provide accommodation for pauper patients, and a nurses' home was constructed in 1935. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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