Detail of NE entrance to hospital block Digital image of E 3904 cn
SC 776776
Description Detail of NE entrance to hospital block Digital image of E 3904 cn
Date 8/11/2001
Catalogue Number SC 776776
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content North-East Entrance to Hospital Block, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus This shallow stone porch, surmounted by a carved pediment, is the main north-east entrance to the hospital block. The inscription on the pediment reads: 'The rich and poor meet together, the Lord is the maker of them all', and is accompanied by the date '1891'. Sunnyside Royal Hospital was designed to provide effective housing for both private paying patients and pauper lunatics. The new hospital unit, which opened in 1891, provided care for patients who had become physically ill as well as those who required treatment due to the severity of their mental illness. Separate hospital accommodation in distinct self-contained units was a new development at the time, and hospital units began to be added to most of the existing asylums from the 1890s onwards. The hospital unit was constructed along the same principals as the main asylum block, with segregation of patients according to sex, class and complaint, and accommodated every level of society, ranging from the richest to the poorest. 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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