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Interior View of New Main Entrance Hall Digital image of E/4769

SC 749517

Description Interior View of New Main Entrance Hall Digital image of E/4769

Date c. 1902

Catalogue Number SC 749517

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 4769

Scope and Content New main entrance hall, Craig Dunain Hospital (Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum), Leachkin Road, Inverness, Highland Craig Dunain, originally known as the Inverness District Asylum, was opened in 1864 as a result of the 1857 Lunacy (Scotland) Act. This vast, red sandstone institution, designed by James Matthews of Aberdeen, was some 183m in length with a 27.5m tower on either side of the entrance. It was closed in 2000. This shows the entrance hall furnished in the style of a grand Victorian country house with guns and stags' heads adorning. Craig Dunain is typical of 19th-century asylum design. 'A spacious building resembling the palace of a peer, airy and elevated, and elegant' was considered best for the care of the mentally ill. In 1874 Craig Dunain was one of the first asylums in Scotland to demolish the walls surrounding its airing courts, treating their inmates as patients rather than prisoners when they went for a walk. This progressive move was somewhat undermined by recurring complaints of poor diet, cold rooms and overcrowding. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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