Carnegie Lodge -view of ground-floor dining room from N Digital image of E 3931 cn

Description Carnegie Lodge -view of ground-floor dining room from N Digital image of E 3931 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776790

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Dining Room, Carnegie Lodge, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus This large dining room was one of two in Carnegie Lodge, each occupying the ground floor of the male and female end pavilions. Each room was filled with natural light from a great bay window which offered uninterrupted views over the terraced lawns to the woodland beyond. The ceiling has simple plasterwork decoration, and the walls are wood panelled (now painted white) to dado height. The main feature of the room is a huge inglenook, flanked by Classical-style fluted pilasters, set in the west (right) wall. The surround is painted with a mural depicting magnificent birds and reclining figures encircled by stems and leaves. The wooden chimneypiece within the inglenook has a mirrored and pedimented overmantel, and a small stained glass window in the south-facing wall to admit light. Male and female patients were segregated, with female patients in one wing of the villa and male patients in the other. Each wing had its own sitting room, dining room and sleeping accommodation, although patients could meet informally in the recreation room in the central block for dances, musical evenings, lectures and church services on a Sunday. The dining room, used by both patients and their medical and nursing staff, was designed like a room in a country house rather than an institution. The tables were dressed formally in starched white table linen, and set with silver cutlery and fashionable china. Conversation between staff and patients was 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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