Oblique aerial view.

Description Oblique aerial view.

Date 1991

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number B 49918

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 721086, SC 1683550

Scope and Content Aerial view from the east, Carstairs State Hospital, South Lanarkshire Carstairs State Hospital was built in several stages. The buildings to the west (top) were built in the late 1930s to replace the criminal lunatic department of Perth prison. The buildings to the east (bottom) were built 1956-8 to designs by architect Stewart Sim and feature small harled 'villas' with stone gables, buttresses and carvings in the manner of 16th-/17th-century traditional Scottish architecture. The hospital was extended and refurbished in the 1980s. This aerial view shows the west wing of the hospital at the top of the photograph, with small buildings arranged around a fan-like pattern of roads and paths. The east wing below has accommodation and care blocks laid out around a tear-shaped road with the concert hall in the centre (identifiable by its curving wings). In the centre of the image is a rectangular gatehouse building with central courtyard which was added in the 1980s. A smaller harled gatehouse guards the entrance to the east wing of the complex. The east wing of this hospital has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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