View of west wall and buttresses. Digital image of C 44175 CN.

Description View of west wall and buttresses. Digital image of C 44175 CN.

Date 17/5/1994

Catalogue Number SC 721059

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of C 44175 CN

Scope and Content West wall 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 the corner of one of the 40-bed blocks. The lowest courses are of stone, and this continues up the corners of the wall, forming buttresses at first-floor level. Iron bars at the windows for security are disguised as traditional multi-pane glazing, and have narrow opening sections top and bottom for ventilation. A carved skewputt can be seen at the point where the roofline meets the wall (right), and some windows have stone surrounds. This hospital was designed to be different from the traditional image of an 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.

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