General view from SW including Pinel Lodge Digital image of E 8581 CN

Description General view from SW including Pinel Lodge Digital image of E 8581 CN

Date 21/4/2001

Catalogue Number SC 785533

Category On-line Digital Images

Scope and Content Pinel Lodge, Murthly Hospital, Perth & Kinross, from the south-west (closed 1984 and now demolished) This impressive red sandstone three-storeyed villa, possibly designed by the architect, David Smart (1824-1914), was built to the west of the main hospital in 1894. This south front has advanced gabled end blocks with timber-bracketed eaves, and a two-bayed central section with dormer windows. A glass-roofed porch, probably a later addition, provided a sheltered south-facing seating area with a view over the gardens. By the 1890s, villas were considered the best form of accommodation for lunatic patients, providing a self-contained unit of dining rooms, sleeping accommodation, bathrooms and kitchen. Pinel Lodge was one of two villas built at Murthly in 1894 in an attempt to provide accommodation for pauper patients on the colony or village system first adopted in Germany at Alt Scherbitz, near Leipzig, in the 1870s. This system allowed patients the freedom to live in a 'house' rather than an institution, and go to work, attend church, shop and visit the theatre just as they would do in any village community. Pinel Lodge was named after Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), a great pioneer in psychiatry. Murthly Hospital, designed by the Dundee firm of architects, Charles Edward & Thomas S Robertson, opened in 1864 as the Perth District Asylum for pauper lunatics. It was the second district asylum to open in Scotland, and in 1894 became one of the first to build villas within its grounds in an early attempt to provide accommodation for patients based on the colony or village system. The hospital closed in 1984 and is now demolished. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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