View of hospital block cross corridor from NE (E side) Digital image of E 3911 cn
SC 776782
Description View of hospital block cross corridor from NE (E side) Digital image of E 3911 cn
Date 8/11/2001
Catalogue Number SC 776782
Category On-line Digital Images
Scope and Content Corridor in Hospital Block, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus This wide, barrel-vaulted corridor forms a link between two of the pavilions in the hospital block. It has a plain cornice with simple plasterwork detailing, and panelled walls (now painted) to door height. A simple cornice with a dentil course, a series of small rectangular projecting blocks tightly spaced like teeth, runs along the top of the panelling. The hospital block, which opened in 1891, provided care for patients who were physically ill as well as those who required treatment for their mental illness. Patients were segregated according to sex, class and complaint, and accommodated in four, two-storeyed pavilions linked by covered corridors largely for the convenience of staff. 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. 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.
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/collection/776782
File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap
Attribution: © RCAHMS
You may: copy, display, store and make derivative works [eg documents] solely for licensed personal use at home or solely for licensed educational institution use by staff and students on a secure intranet.
Under these conditions: Display Attribution, No Commercial Use or Sale, No Public Distribution [eg by hand, email, web]
