General view of rear elevation

Description General view of rear elevation

Date 1895

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

Catalogue Number BL 13246

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 702021, B 64329

Scope and Content Bevan Villa, Craighouse Mental Asylum, Craighouse Road, Edinburgh, from the east (latterly the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and presently part of Napier University) Bevan Villa, one of three separate villas that lay within the Craighouse Mental Asylum complex, was designed in 1891 by the architect, Sydney Mitchell, as part of the residential accommodation for the new hospital. Harry Bedford Lemere was commissioned to photograph the building in 1895. The house, in red sandstone with warm yellow facings, has octagonal corner towers with steep pyramid-shaped roofs, and tall French chimneys with divisions between the flues instead of pots. The entrance is approached by a branched perron stair (an external stair with a landing at halfway) with elaborate wrought-iron handrails. Each of the three residential villas within the complex was the centre of a little community, and designed to be more like the patient's own home than a hospital. Bevan Villa was named after one of the hospital's benefactors, Elizabeth Bevan, the granddaughter of Dr Andrew Duncan, founder the Edinburgh Asylum in Morningside. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Glass

External Reference Box 26

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