Carnegie Lodge -detail of first-floor 'Zodiac Room' fireplace Digital image of E 3940 cn

Description Carnegie Lodge -detail of first-floor 'Zodiac Room' fireplace Digital image of E 3940 cn

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776793

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content East Chimneypiece in Recreation Hall, Carnegie Lodge, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus This elegant wooden chimneypiece, set in the east wall of the recreation hall of Carnegie Lodge, is one of two identical chimneypieces which face each other across the room. It is carved with much Classical-style detailing, including Ionic pilasters which appear to support the entablature on the overmantel and its cornice of dentils, rectangular projecting blocks which are tightly spaced like teeth, hence the term. Carnegie Lodge, built in 1900, attempted to offer surroundings of the utmost comfort to its patients, all of whom were private patients who paid for their treatment and accommodation, and many of whom were wealthy and from an aristocratic background. The villa offered 'spacious and handsomely-furnished rooms' as well as 'everything resembling the objects in a private house'. Patients could expect to be accommodated in single rooms with private bathrooms, and have additional accommodation for their personal servants and carriages. Male patients had the facilities of a billiard room, and both male and female patients could meet informally in a magnificent recreation room for musical evenings, and amateur dramatics. 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/776793

File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap