General view of hospital block from ESE

Description General view of hospital block from ESE

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776779

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of E 3899 CN

Scope and Content Hospital Block, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the south-east This symmetrical hospital block stands in a splendid open setting. It is made up of four two-storeyed pavilions linked by covered corridors, and provided separate ward accommodation for male and female patients. The two central units, designed in a Dutch Renaissance style, have steeply pitched roofs and curved, stepped gables topped by carved pediments. Ventilators, accommodated in large ornamental turrets with domed roofs, rise from each pavilion. This hospital unit was the first important addition to the asylum site. A competition was held for the design of the building, and plans were submitted from several well established architects of the day, including the firm of H Saxon Snell & Son, the leading 'hospital' architects in London. The competition was won by Sydney Mitchell & Wilson, an Edinburgh architectural firm set up in 1887 when Wilson joined Mitchell as partner. Sydney Mitchell (1856-1930), whose father was the Deputy Commissioner on the Board of Lunacy for Scotland, went on to win commissions for two of the most prestigious asylums to be built at the end of the 19th century - the Crichton Royal Institution in Dumfries, and Craighouse Asylum in Edinburgh. 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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