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General view of main block from S

SC 776763

Description General view of main block from S

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776763

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 3852 CN

Scope and Content Main Building, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the south This large, impressive building was designed in the Jacobean style that Moffatt often adopted, and was constructed on an E-plan, with a long south-facing front of mullioned windows. It has three storeys and a basement, and has its centrepiece, end bays and centre-length bays advanced. Access to the extensive terraced lawns is by a flight of stone steps (right). The asylum was designed with an administrative section occupying the central arm of the 'E', and L-shaped wings, one for male patients and the other for female patients, on either side. The central administrative section contained the kitchens, the public rooms, including the dining and recreation halls, and the apartments for the medical superintendent and the matron who were responsible for the male and the female patients respectively. The wings contained the sleeping accommodation for the patients who were housed in dormitories or single rooms depending on their status and severity of their condition. The building formed two partially enclosed grassed courtyards or 'airing courts' to the rear where patients could take exercise. 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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