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Detail of first-floor recreation hall roof Digital image of E 3897 cn

SC 776761

Description Detail of first-floor recreation hall roof Digital image of E 3897 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776761

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Detail of Ceiling in Recreation Hall, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the east This splendid cusped timber ceiling, supported by tie beams (horizontal beams) and cross ties (cross beams), has much stencilled decoration. The major sections of the ceiling are edged by a border of fleur-de-lys, a stylised lily flower motif composed of three petals bound together near their bases. Each major section is sub-divided by coloured ribs painted in muted shades of green, yellow and pink, into smaller compartments, each of which is decorated with a central lozenge surrounded by elegant leaf forms. A large recreation hall was a feature of all asylums, and provided a room where staff and patients could meet together on an informal basis. The hall was often very elaborate and spacious, attempting to recreate the atmosphere of a grand hotel or country house. Here the patient had the to opportunity to engage in a series of indoor activities such as reading, drawing or writing as well as a range of indoor sports, such as billiards or indoor bowls. Most halls had a stage and could host amateur dramatics or musical evenings as well as twice-weekly balls, concerts, lectures and church services on a Sunday. Sunnyside Royal Hospital, designed by the architect, William Lambie Moffatt (1808-82), was built in 1855-7 on a hillside site 6km north of Montrose to replace the old Royal Asylum in the town. The new site was further developed in 1888-91 when a hospital block, designed by the architects, Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, was built to the north-west of the main building, and a large villa, Carnegie Lodge, designed by the Aberdeen architect, William Kelly (c.1861-1944), was added to house private patients. Another two villas, Howden Villa and North Esk Villa, were built in the early 1900s to provide accommodation for pauper patients, and a nurses' home was constructed in 1935. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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