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Detail of first-floor recreation hall roof Digital image of E 3895 cn

SC 776767

Description Detail of first-floor recreation hall roof Digital image of E 3895 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776767

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Detail of Ceiling in Recreation Hall, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the south This splendid cusped timber ceiling, supported in the centre by cross ties (horizontal cross beams), has much stencilled decoration. Each major section is edged by a border of fleur-de-lys, a stylised lily flower motif that was the former royal arms of France. Each major section is further divided by ribs, painted in muted shades of green, yellow and pink, into smaller compartments, each decorated with a central lozenge surrounded by elegant stencilled leaf forms. The value of providing recreational facilities for patients was recognised when the asylum was originally planned, and a recreation room was incorporated into the central block of the hospital. It was designed on a grand scale, rather like the great hall of a country house, and provided an informal meeting place for both staff and patients. The hall was used to provide an area were patients could enjoy quiet pastimes such as reading, drawing and painting, or join in community activities such as indoor games, amateur dramatics or musical entertainments. Dances for both patients and staff were held regularly, and there were church services every 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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