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World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Date 4 October 2013
Event ID 965076
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type World War One Audit of Surviving Remains
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/965076
Built by Peddie & Kinnear in 1878-80 as the Edinburgh Hydropathic. Italian, 3-storey ashlar block with towers centre and ends, 280 ft frontage. Chapel: Reginald Fairlie 1933, linked to convent building by corridor. Rockfaced rubble, harled brick, slate and copper roofs. Narthex, nave and chancel, barrel vaulted on concrete ribs, marble-lined apse. Transept added on N side 1965.
Historic Scotland Listing description 1970.
The building is famous for having housed a military hospital used for the treatment of shell-shock cases in the First World War, including two of the "war poets", Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.
Information from HS/RCAHMS World War One Audit Project (GJB) 4 October 2013.
