Interior-general view of Great Hall of Craig House
BL 13223
Description Interior-general view of Great Hall of Craig House
Date 1895
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 13223
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Great Hall, Craighouse Mental Asylum, Craighouse Road, Edinburgh, looking south (latterly the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and presently part of Napier University) Craighouse Mental Asylum, a huge chateau designed by the architect, Sydney Mitchell, was built in 1889-94 as new hospital premises for the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. The Great Hall, a general amusement room for patients, was photographed in 1895 by the architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere. This huge Baronial-style hall is 19m in length, and rises almost 14m to a magnificent barrel-vaulted ceiling. The walls, lined with oak panelling with oak Corinthian pilasters above, have a set of canopied stone chimneypieces which face each other across the room. A musicians' gallery runs across the south wall. The hall was designed as a day room for recreation where orchestral recitals (often by the patients themselves) were a regular feature. It was an attempt to offer surroundings resembling a great Victorian country house to patients who were wealthy and often from aristocratic backgrounds. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 23
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