View of hospital block dining hall from SW Digital image of E 3906 cn
SC 776780
Description View of hospital block dining hall from SW Digital image of E 3906 cn
Date 8/11/2001
Catalogue Number SC 776780
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Dining Hall in Hospital Block, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus This large dining hall, built as a separate unit to the rear of the hospital block, has an unusual beamed ceiling. The lower section on each side is glazed, allowing natural light to flood the interior, and the wooden cross beams, which rise from wall brackets, are decorated with pendants. The hospital unit, which opened in 1891, provided care for patients who were physically ill as well as those who required treatment because of their mental illness. Separate hospital accommodation in distinct self-contained units was quite a new development at the time, and hospital units began to be added to most of the existing asylums from the 1890s onwards. The dining hall, used by both patients and their medical and nursing staff, was light, airy and spacious, all conditions designed to aid the recuperation of the patient. Mealtimes were organised along civilised lines with conversation between staff and patients encouraged, and the conventional rules of social behaviour strictly observed. 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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