Plan of first floor

Description Plan of first floor

Date 1853

Catalogue Number SC 755739

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 12346 CN

Scope and Content Photographic copy of plans by Peddie & Kinnear for the first floor of Stratheden Hospital, Springfield, Cupar, Fife The asylum was designed on an E-plan, with a large central block, and two-storeyed wings extending on each side to end pavilions. The central block contained the day rooms, workrooms, offices for administration, store rooms, dining hall, library and recreation room as well as the matron's and medical superintendent's apartments. The wings and end pavilions provided the sleeping accommodation with dormitories and single rooms for four classes of male patients on one side and female patients on the other. The plan of the building was symmetrical and ordered, and united all the important considerations of a lunatic asylum with neatness and balance, and classification of patients by sex and symptoms. The central section provided all the necessary public rooms, with opportunities for the patients to read, for female patients to work at dressmaking or in the laundry, and for the staff and patients take part in 'entertainments' such as musical and theatrical evenings. The dormitory wings provided simple, clean, light and airy sleeping accommodation that could be well supervised by staff from the central section. Stratheden Hospital, a large complex designed by the Edinburgh architects, Peddie & Kinnear, was built in 1863-5 and opened in 1866 as the Fife & Kinross District Asylum with accommodation for 200 pauper lunatics. Later additions included a hospital block in 1891 by the same firm of architects, then known as Kinnear & Peddie, and a new nurses' home designed by Andrew Haxton in 1929. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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