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View of ground-floor library from S Digital image of E 3871 cn

SC 776765

Description View of ground-floor library from S Digital image of E 3871 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776765

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Library, Carnegie Lodge, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus This library was one of the public rooms on the ground floor of the central block of Carnegie Lodge. It has a plain compartmentalised ceiling, and walls panelled to door height. The built-in bookcases with glazed doors which line one wall were a common feature in large country houses in the late Victorian era. Carnegie Lodge, built in 1900, was designed exclusively for private patients, many of whom were wealthy and from an aristocratic background. The villa bore a closer resemblance to a country house than an institution, and attempted to offer surroundings of the utmost comfort to its patients. It had its own kitchens, dining halls, recreation hall and library, echoing the main, larger pauper hospital on the site in its architecture, layout and balance, but being a smaller, more ornate and luxurious version occupied by patients of 'higher rank'. 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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