View of recreation ground pavilion from NE Digital image of E 3975 cn

Description View of recreation ground pavilion from NE Digital image of E 3975 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776775

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Recreation Ground Pavilion, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the north-east This charming hexagonal Victorian pavilion stands amidst the extensive lawns that stretch to the south of the main asylum block. It probably dates from the late 19th century, and has a corrugated iron roof which projects over the timber walls to form a sheltered area with bench seating for spectators. Recreation featured prominently as a significant therapeutic approach to the patients' well-being and eventual cure. They were encouraged to fill their leisure hours with a variety of activities including walking in the extensive grounds, or playing tennis, croquet, football and cricket. In the summer parties of patients and staff would picnic in the grounds, and the hospital's annual sports day was an event enjoyed by both patients and staff. 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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