Interior-general view of corridor in Craig House

Description Interior-general view of corridor in Craig House

Date 1895

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number BL 13242

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 701983, B 64325

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. This corridor is divided along its length by arches which rise from panelled pilasters decorated with half lozenges. The walls have dado panelling, moulded panels with checked corners above, and a deep frieze with a pretty patterned paper. Above the bedroom doors are opening window lights built into the frieze. Craighouse, the most progressive asylum of its kind, was designed on the lines of a first-class hotel rather than a mental hospital. However, the bedroom doors opened out to the corridor rather than into the rooms in order to prevent dangerous patients from hiding behind the door and attacking staff from the rear. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 26

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