View from south-west.

Description View from south-west.

Date 17/5/1994

Catalogue Number C 44190 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 721056

Scope and Content Medical centre from the south-west, 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 the medical centre with its harled walls and stone-edged gables, each terminating in a scrolled skewputt (a stone set where the roofline meets the wall). The small porch echoes the shape of the gable above it, and the windows have iron glazing bars for security. This hospital was designed to be different from the traditional image of a mental institution. Rather than build one large structure, smaller 'colonies' of domestic-scale villas were arranged around a series of paths and landscaped grounds. 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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