Carnegie Lodge -view of ground-floor entrance hall from SE Digital image of E 3929 cn

Description Carnegie Lodge -view of ground-floor entrance hall from SE Digital image of E 3929 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776785

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Entrance Hall, Carnegie Lodge, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus This lounge-hall formed the main entrance to Carnegie Lodge, and was designed to give patients the impression they were stepping into a country house rather than an institution. The walls and ceiling are painted in light, warm colours, and the ceiling is compartmentalised, with a simple Classical cornice. Fluted Corinthian-style Classical columns and pilasters with gilded capitals flank the entrance, and an elaborate chimneypiece, with a carved wooden surround and mirrored overmantel, forms a focal point for the sitting area on the right. Carnegie Lodge, built in 1900, was designed exclusively for private paying patients. It attempted to offer surroundings of the utmost comfort to patients who were wealthy and often from an aristocratic background. The patients paid for their treatment and accommodation, which often included a suite of rooms and accommodation for personal servants and housing for a carriage. Not all patients were clinically ill, and many were those who did not fit neatly into Victorian society, such as unmarried mothers, epileptics and the physically disabled. Others simply admitted themselves into the asylum, believing it to be a better place than the outside world. 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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