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Photographic copy of Elevations, main bldgs., entrance bldg., washing houses, workshops 'B' Competition drawings ? Peddie & Kinnear ? c.1860
D 73039 P
Description Photographic copy of Elevations, main bldgs., entrance bldg., washing houses, workshops 'B' Competition drawings ? Peddie & Kinnear ? c.1860
Date c. 1860
Catalogue Number D 73039 P
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copy of IND 97/2
Copies SC 749423
Scope and Content Drawing showing proposed plan of hospital and ancillary buildings, Craig Dunain Hospital, Leachkin Road, Inverness, Highland (Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum) Inverness District Asylum was opened in 1864 on a ridge above the town called Craig Dunain, a name the hospital took for itself in 1947. This vast, imposing, red sandstone, Victorian asylum was designed and built by James Matthews, an architect from Aberdeen. The hospital was finally closed in July 2000. This shows the original plans drawn up for the design of the new asylum in 1860. It demonstrates the huge scale of this symmetrical institution, its 183m-wide façade broken by gabled bay windows. Below are designs for workshops, entrance buildings and a washing annex, all to be surrounded by a large stone wall. Following the passing of the Lunacy (Scotland) Act in 1857, District Lunacy Boards were set up to organise the provision of accommodation for 'pauper lunatics'. Highland Region Board bought a 180-acre site above the town and asked three architects, including Matthews, to prepare designs for an asylum. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Scale 1":20'
Medium Wash
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