Interior of Concert Hall from South.

Description Interior of Concert Hall from South.

Date 12/5/1994

Catalogue Number C 44215

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 721036

Scope and Content Concert hall from south, 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 concert hall with its arched roof, and arches over the windows at the sides. Doorways on either side of the stage lead to the backstage area. The floor is covered by polished wooden floorboards, with a carpeted area around the edge of the room. This hall is used for concerts and cinema shows (with a projector screen set up on the stage) during the week, and for church services on Sundays. 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.

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