View of west wall gable.
C 44173 CN
Description View of west wall gable.
Date 17/5/1994
Catalogue Number C 44173 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 721058
Scope and Content West wall gable of Tinto ward, Carstairs State Hospital, South Lanarkshire Carstairs State Hospital was built in several stages. The buildings to the west of the site were built in the late 1930s to replace the criminal lunatic department of Perth prison. The buildings to the east were built 1956-8 to designs by architect Stewart Sim and feature small harled 'villas' with stone gables, buttresses and carvings in the manner of 16th-/17th-century traditional Scottish architecture. The hospital was extended and refurbished in the 1980s. This shows a shaped gable (upper portion of a wall supporting a pitched roof) with stone dressings, above a harled wall with stone lower courses and buttresses. A central window with ornamental stone surround and pediment bears the date '1960' in a carved monogram. The windows are protected by iron bars which have been cleverly designed to look like traditional multi-pane glazing. The details on this building, and several others within the hospital complex, feature stone detailing and harling in the manner of Scottish architect Robert Lorimer (1864-1929). The east wing of this hospital has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
Medium Colour negative
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