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Inverness, Leachkin Road, Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum Interior -detail of decoration in recreation/sports hall Digital image of E 3037 cn
SC 776622
Description Inverness, Leachkin Road, Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum Interior -detail of decoration in recreation/sports hall Digital image of E 3037 cn
Date 12/6/2000
Catalogue Number SC 776622
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Detail of Pilaster in Recreation Hall, Craig Dunain Hospital, Leachkin Road, Inverness, Highland (now closed) This pilaster, a slim, flat, rectangular version of a column projecting from the wall, is one of several lining the sides of the recreation hall. It is decorated with simple mouldings and has a central foliate plasterwork decoration. A dentil course, a series of rectangular projecting blocks tightly spaced like teeth, runs below the cornice. Dentils, like pilasters, were commonly used in Classical architecture. The recreation hall was built in 1927 at a cost of £7,000 to provide a large hall where both patients and staff could meet on an informal basis for weekly dances or cinema shows. It was designed on a grand scale with an attempt to recreate 'the palace of a peer', and was considered at the time to be one of the finest features of the hospital. The hall had a seating capacity for 400 people, and could double as a theatre or concert hall. Latterly it was adapted for indoor sports such as badminton, with quiet corners for study, reading or writing. Craig Dunain Hospital, designed by the Aberdeen architect, James Matthews (1808-98), opened in 1864 as the Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum with accommodation for 250-300 patients in single rooms. It was the third District Asylum to be built in Scotland, and occupies a splendid hillside site above Inverness. Additions were made in 1898-1901 to include male and female wards, and further expansion in the 1920s saw the construction of a recreation hall. The last major building scheme before the hospital closed in 2000 included the construction of a new chapel which was completed in 1963. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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