Interior-general view of Corridor in Craig House
SC 702016
Description Interior-general view of Corridor in Craig House
Date 1895
Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England
Catalogue Number SC 702016
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of BL 13251
Scope and Content Hallway, Craighouse Mental Asylum, Craighouse Road, Edinburgh (latterly the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and presently part of Napier University) Craighouse Mental Asylum, a huge chateau designed by the architect, Sydney Mitchell, was built in 1889-94 as new hospital premises for the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1895. This top-lit hallway, divided along its length by arches which rise from panelled pilasters, has a small chimneypiece set into the corner of a large recess. The walls have a patterned paper above the dado rail, and a heavily embossed paper frieze. Craighouse was designed as a home, rather than an asylum, for the treatment of patients' physical and mental needs. Accommodation provided 'attractive and harmonious décor', menus were carefully planned, and the patients were encouraged to attend social functions and take up outdoor pursuits. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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