Banff, Clunie Street, Chalmers Hospital
Hospital (First World War), Hospital (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Banff, Clunie Street, Chalmers Hospital
Classification Hospital (First World War), Hospital (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Castle Street; Fife Street; Chalmers Auxiliary Hospital
Canmore ID 82145
Site Number NJ66SE 94
NGR NJ 68818 64465
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/82145
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Banff
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Banff And Buchan
- Former County Banffshire
NJ66SE 94 68818 64465
The hospital or bedhouse for eight poor women at Banff (recorded by the Spalding Club) was in all likelihood a post-Reformation foundation.
Spalding Club 1847-69; IB Cowan and DE Easson 1976.
NJ66SE 94 68818 64465
EXTERNAL REFERENCES:
7. Annexe/maternity wing, Chalmers Hospital, Banff. Architect, Major James Wood, Cullen.
BANFFSHIRE JOURNAL, 5 October, 1948.
Also new nurses' home, 'cottage type', architect George Bennett Mitchell, Aberdeen.
BANFFSHIRE JOURNAL, 31 Aug. 1937.
Information from Mrs Elizabeth Beaton 4 July 1994
Photographic Survey (3 May 2006)
The Chalmers Hospital site was recorded by the Threatened Buildings Survey prior to the demolition of all the buildings on the site except for the main block on Clunie Street by William Lambie Moffat dated 1861.
Information from RCAHMS (STG)
Project (March 2013 - September 2013)
A project to characterise the quantity and quality of the Scottish resource of known surviving remains of the First World War. Carried out in partnership between Historic Scotland and RCAHMS.
