Workshops -view from E Digital image of E 3964 cn

Description Workshops -view from E Digital image of E 3964 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776770

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Workshop Block, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the east This two-storeyed workshop block, built to the rear of the main asylum, dates from the building of the hospital in 1855-7. It is constructed on a rectangular plan, with each side divided into individual workshop units, and a squat water tower rising from the centre of the south front. The single-stage tower, topped by a corbelled out parapet, has interesting Victorian polychromatic stonework and a pair of long elegant round-headed windows set in recessed openings in each elevation. The upper stage is a later addition. The workshops are now mainly used by hospital departments. Most patients were encouraged to work, usually at the same trades in which they had been employed before admission to the asylum. Private patients, particularly those of 'higher rank', were not required to work since they were unlikely to have been employed before admission. Male patients generally worked as tailors, shoemakers, joiners, bakers and gardeners, and female patients were employed in the laundry and in dressmaking. The hospital quickly developed as a self-contained, self-sufficient community that supported each of its members and was quick to use the talents of an individual to the benefit of the general community. 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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