View of Carnegie Lodge from SSW Digital image of E 3927 cn

Description View of Carnegie Lodge from SSW Digital image of E 3927 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776788

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Carnegie Lodge, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the south-south-west This large impressive villa, built in 1900, stands within its own wooded grounds to the north-east of the main hospital building. Like the main building, it was constructed on an E-plan and designed with Jacobean-style detailing. The large two-storeyed central block, with a three-bayed advanced centrepiece with long mullioned windows, is flanked by lower, two-storeyed wings leading to advanced gabled end pavilions. A large recreation hall occupied the first floor of the central block, and the side wings housed the sitting rooms, dining rooms and sleeping accommodation for male patients on one side, and female patients on the other side. The dining room occupied the ground floor of the each end pavilion, with a great bay window to the south, and a magnificent inglenook fireplace built out in the side wall (left). The small window allowed light into the inglenook. Carnegie Lodge was named after Mrs Susan Carnegie of Charlton who founded the Royal Asylum of Montrose. The villa was designed exclusively for private patients, and built in a secluded setting at a discreet distance from the main hospital building. The patients paid for their board and lodging, and often brought their personal servants and carriages with them. Some patients were not clinically ill, but were epileptic or physically disabled, and hence did not fit neatly into Victorian society. Others simply admitted themselves as they regarded hospital life as a better option than living in the outside world. Unlike pauper lunatics, private patients were not required to work, and were relatively free to spend their time as they wished and to indulge their favourite pastimes or sports. Although the male and female patients were segregated, they could meet informally in the recreation room for dances, musical evenings, lectures or church services on a 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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