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Carnegie Lodge -view of first-floor 'Zodiac Room' from N Digital image of E 3938 cn

SC 776792

Description Carnegie Lodge -view of first-floor 'Zodiac Room' from N Digital image of E 3938 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776792

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Recreation Hall, Carnegie Lodge, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus This impressive recreation hall occupies the first floor of the central block of Carnegie Lodge. Its three great mullioned windows flood the room with natural light, and offer uninterrupted views over the terraced lawns to the woodland beyond. The ceiling, supported by elaborate console brackets, is divided into compartments, each bearing a large central painted panel representing one of the 12 signs of the zodiac. Each panel is edged by a stencilled border of elegant leaf forms. The walls are partially panelled (now painted white) and incorporate twin carved wooden chimneypieces which face each other across the room. Carnegie Lodge was built in 1900, shortly after Craighouse Asylum in Edinburgh, designed by the architect, Sydney Mitchell, opened in 1894. The architect, William Kelly, like Sydney Mitchell, was well established in the field of hospital design, and had the same philosophy that 'surroundings contributed to cure'. Like Craighouse, Carnegie Lodge was designed exclusively for private patients, and like Craighouse, its principal feature was a magnificent recreation hall in the central section of the building where male and female patients could meet informally. The hall provided the opportunity for patients to engage in their own individual pastimes, such as reading, drawing and painting, or take part with members of staff in a range of community activities such as amateur dramatics and musical evenings. Patients who could play a musical instrument were encouraged to give recitals or perform in concerts, and others were invited to give readings or lectures. Church services were held in the hall on Sundays. 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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