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C 17672 CN
Description View from W.
Date 3/11/1993
Catalogue Number C 17672 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 373094
Scope and Content Crichton Royal Hospital, Glencaple Road, Dumfries In 1823, Dr James Crichton died, leaving £100,000 to be spent on charitable purposes. His wife decided to build and endow a lunatic asylum which opened in 1839. It was designed by William Burn, architect of the Perth Asylum. Johnston House, designed by Sydney Mitchell and opened in 1901, was a laundry block staffed by female pauper patients. It is built of red sandstone in a Scots Jacobean style. In 1909-11 it was converted to become the administrative centre for the hospital, the post-mortem department and the stores. One of the laboratories still has furnishings dating from 1911. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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