Interior View of New Main Entrance
E 4767
Description Interior View of New Main Entrance
Date c. 1902
Catalogue Number E 4767
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 749513
Scope and Content New main entrance, Craig Dunain Hospital (Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum), Leachkin Road, Inverness, Highland Inverness District Asylum, opened in 1864, was the third District Asylum for the care of the mentally ill to be built in Scotland following the 1857 Lunacy (Scotland) Act. In 1947 the hospital changed its name to Craig Dunain, known locally as 'the Craig' until its closure in 2000. This shows the main entrance to the hospital. It is a typical example of 19th-century asylum design, built and furnished to resemble a grand Victorian country house. It was thought that elegant, spacious surroundings would provide the type of secure environment necessary in the treatment of mental illness. In 1860 the District Lunacy Board for Highland Region held a limited competition between three architects for the design of a new asylum to be built on a magnificent site above Inverness. The competition was won by James Matthews, an architect from Aberdeen who opened an office in Inverness. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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