Nurses' Home and Cricket Pavilion -view from W Digital image of E 3972

Description Nurses' Home and Cricket Pavilion -view from W Digital image of E 3972

Date 8/11/2001

Catalogue Number SC 776796

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Cricket Pavilion, Sunnyside Royal Hospital, Hillside, Montrose, Angus, from the west This charming Victorian timber pavilion, dating from the late 19th century, stands just to the north of the nurses' home (right), at the edge of extensive lawns. It has a steeply pitched slated roof, and a large open rustic-style porch supported by four roughly-hewn tree trunks. Patients were encouraged to be active and take up outdoor pursuits as exercise and 'sun and air' were thought to be beneficial and aid recovery. The vast grounds of the hospital allowed patients the freedom to walk or to take part in activities such as tennis, croquet and cricket. Staff played against patients in competitions, and inter-asylum matches for staff teams were organised. 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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