Interior-general view of corridor in Craig House
BL 13226
Description Interior-general view of corridor in Craig House
Date 1895
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number BL 13226
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Corridor, Craighouse Mental Asylum, Craighouse Road, Edinburgh (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 architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1895. The corridor is divided along its length by arches which rise from panelled pilasters decorated with lozenges. The walls have dado panelling, wallpaper panels above, and a deep frieze with a bold pattern of leaves, flowers and stems. The pattern of the fitted carpet follows the lines of division made by the arches. The planning arrangement of the hospital was more like a grand hotel than a mental asylum, with individual rooms for patients opening off wide corridors. Patients were classified as first- or second-class, depending on how much they could afford to pay for accommodation, and were allocated rooms accordingly. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Glass
External Reference Box 23
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