View of ground floor staircase and security gate. Digital image of C 44183.
SC 721045
Description View of ground floor staircase and security gate. Digital image of C 44183.
Date 17/5/1994
Catalogue Number SC 721045
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of C 44183
Scope and Content Security gate at the foot of the ground-floor staircase in Ochil 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 lockable iron grille at the foot of the staircase leading to the bedroom corridor. A decorative detail of scrolled metalwork is set into the door to soften the effect of the bars. This grille was designed to be locked day and night, to ensure patients remained downstairs during the day, and upstairs by night. 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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