When Kingseat Hospital was requisitioned by the Admiralty during the Second World War, many of the patients were transferred to Cornhill. {Previously I haderroneouslyattributed Dingleton Hospital to Peddie & Kinnear, they may have been unsuccessful competition entrants.} The buildings form an impressive range, built in red sandstone the administration block is dominated by massive twin pinnacled towers as at Woodilee, but the style is altogether different, in the French Renaissance manner with rich carved details. Even once the plans had been finalised there were many delays before the church was finally completed in 1897. Could you tell me how you guys went in ? By the end of the 20 th century, increased awareness of mental health disorders and their appropriate treatment led most of these residential facilities to be shuttered and often abandoned. Variety was the key to the design, variety of style, colour and texture achieved through the finishes, the materials, the varied roof line and every conceivable means. A brief look at Victorian hydropathic establishments in Scotland, The Ducker House, American prefab of the 1880s, Identifying Hospital Huts of the Great War. To get there, you had to turn left from the main entrance to the hospital and walk for just under a mile, and it was up there on the right. It had a frontage of over 300 ft and of three storeys. ARGYLL AND BUTE HOSPITAL, LOCHGILPHEADBuilt as the Argyll District Asylum, it opened in 1863 and was the first district asylum to be built in Scotland following the 1857 Lunacy (Scotland) Act. When it opened the visiting Commissioners in Lunacy found the wards bare, cold and comfortless, with scanty furnishings. . Terminology has changed considerably over the centuries. Further blocks were added in 1943 and 1958, and a new recreation hall in 1970. The government says 6.2m a day is being spent on hotels for migrants and areas with high concentrations of people face a strain on local services. Five architects submitted plans from which the Dundee architects were chosen. The chapel was not built until the turn of the century, when Sir J. J. Burnet was employed to provide new plans. I worked and trained there and the patients were treated well and with respect. Hospitals for this type of illness were generally called asylums, occasionally sanatoria, throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The building, completedc.1990 to designs byRobert Watt Young Dobiefor the Common Services Agency, ingeniously incorporates details from the original buildings. It was part of the same administration. Some of these buildings were demolished to make way for a new building in about 2012. The competition held in 1898 for the new Edinburgh Asylum specified the continental form of plan. These "insane asylums" subsequently turned into prisons where society's "undesirable citizens" the "incurables," criminals, and those with disabilities were put together as a way to isolate them from the public. SUNNYSIDE ROYAL HOSPITAL, MONTROSE The principal building on the site was built in 185557 byWilliam Lambie Moffatt. It closed in 2005 and by 2011 the empty house was in very poor condition and placed on theBuildings at Riskregister for Scotland. , the Edinburgh architects, were appointed to design the new asylum in 1861 but progress was delayed by the interference of Lord Kinnoul whose amendment to the Lunacy (Scotland) Act allowed pauper lunatics to be accommodated in poorhouses. 11 talking about this. Originally it consisted of the one main block to the south of the present site. BILBOHALL HOSPITAL Elgin Pauper Lunatic Asylum was founded by the managers of Grays Hospital c.1835 and was the earliest asylum built specifically for paupers in Scotland and indeed, the only pauper lunatic asylum built in Scotland before the Lunacy Act of 1857. HARTWOOD HOSPITAL, SHOTTS (largely demolished)This vast complex, with its sister institution of Hartwood Hill, must have formed one of the largest hospital sites in Scotland. The patients villas housed from 25 to 40 patients each and varied from two to three storeys. Patients had single rooms (9 or 10ft square) off a 7 ft-wide corridor used as a day room or for exercise, and with sitting rooms on the second floor. This rendered all the old buildings on the site redundant and since then they have been boarded up and are now on the Buildings at Risk register. The asylum was designed in two distinct parts connected by an imposing chapel and offices. A new wing was added in 1746. In the 1860s extensions byA. Two wings were added in 1898 byR. Rowand Anderson. Many of the buildings are on theHeritage at Riskregister and are in a very poor state. (see alsoworkhouses.org). In 1888 the estate of Glack, in Daviot parish, was purchased with 283 acres of land and two mansion houses and a country branch of the asylum was set up. Two villas were constructed in the grounds of the asylum in 1899, Alton and Albany House. The 1930s male patients villa was renamed Craigshannoch Mansion. The building was opened in May 1864 and was the third District Asylum in Scotland, being preceded by the District Asylums of Argyll and Bute at Lochgilphead, and Perth at Murthly. At the core of the mansion house there is a Georgian house, part of which can be distinguished to the rear of the present house. It is a scheme of high quality and the Assembly Hall and dininghalls in particular deserve attention. This was a feature of the Aberdeen Asylum at Kingseat as well as Bangour and the later Dykebar Asylum at Paisley. 1. WOODLANDS HOSPITAL, CULTSWoodlands House, of about the 1860s, was purchased by Aberdeen Corporation in May 1947. Hello, I was at hartwood today and I was just wondering how exactly you got in and into the building as well as everything I saw on the building seemed to be sealed up all the bottom windows etc. It was deliberately constructed from materials which would blend in with the principal block. The hospital was transferred to the National Health Service in 1948 and continued to function as a large mental hospital, latterly administered by Lanarkshire Health Board. Sounds fascinating. There were then sixteen houses in use, half of which were purchased properties. [Sources: The Architect,18 Feb 1871, p.95:Glasgow Herald,9 Feb 1871, p.4]. Both make use of arched windows on the ground floor and each has a central bold entrance bay. Designs were invited fromJames Matthews, who secured the commission, Peddie and Kinnear of Edinburgh and a York architect F. Jones. BIRKWOOD HOSPITAL, LESMAHAGOWThe older buildings on the estate of Birkwood House form an impressive group. During the Second World War the Hospital was taken over by the Naval Authorities and after the War when it was returned to Aberdeen Corporation it remained empty for some years due to the difficulty of providing sufficient staff. He chose Woodilee to illustrate the type of plan evolved by the 1870s which marked a departure from the previous Gartnavel model. A further two villas were built, Howden villa, to the rear of the main building, was designed by a local architectJohnSim,and North Esk villa, built in 1902 to the northeast of the main building. Abandoned wheelchairs, padded cells and rusty syringes: Chilling images from inside Britain's long-lost lunatic asylums left to rot. [Sources:H. J. Blanc, Bangour Village Asylum inJournal of the R.I.B.A., Vol.XV, No.10, 21 March 1908, p.309-26:Lancet, 13 Oct. 1906, p.1031]. [Sources:Tayside Health Board,Annual Reportsand plans at the Hospital. The extensions more than doubled the original accommodation and produced a Tudor Gothic mansion of generous proportions from the original modest classical house. Its rumored that St. Andrews is only one of two original asylums that has a curved corridor. The baroque detailed door hood looks strangely out of place on the utilitarian porch. The last major building on the site, championed by Easterbrook, opened in 1938; Easterbrook Hall was designed by Easterbrook with James Flett, in 1934 as a Central Therapeutical and Recreational building containing a variety of facilities for all the inmates including a small swimming pool. It was his grandson who built the New House of Glack. Since 2009 Sunnyside has been on the Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland. Glasgow - Document Scotland. It then became a hospital for certified mental patients and reopened as such on 7 August 1937. 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The new department contained wards for pauper lunatics and comprised three parts; a main wing of three stories with twelve dormitories and their accompanying workrooms, day-rooms, washing and bathrooms and six sick rooms, a separate single storey building for noisy patients of two large and six small dormitories and the kitchen and laundry. It is flanked by the patients pavilions and to the rear is the administration building, its two bold turrets overpowering the elevation. In the face of this opposition the necessary site was acquired of forty acres and William Burn was requested to submit plans, specifications and estimates in December 1834. In the early 20th century, abuse against patients in these mental asylums was rampant, but few places were as violent as the Philadelphia State Hospital at Byberry . to design a new asylum. He died in 1823 leaving no issue. It was begun in 1893 to designs byMalcolm Stark. A sculpture group was erected in front of the new main building. This progressive act was somewhat belittled by the constant complaints of the Commissioners in Lunacy, when they inspected the hospital, of the lack of warmth in the buildings and the poor diet of the patients. Carnegie Lodge was built byW. C. Orkneyin 1900. The Farm had been the first stage in a project to expand the asylum on modern lines with departments for the different classes of patients. By 1853 David Bryce was acting as the architect to the asylum and he produced plans for a new kitchen department at the East House as well as the completion of Burns West House, the southwest wing remaining to be built. The airing courts were surrounded by high walls, but the ground in the middle of the courts was banked up to enable patients to obtain a view over the wall without being able to escape over it. When first built it was described as having an imposing character,commanding agreeable prospects. I think Ill let the photos do the talking from here. The residue of his estate, after various legacies, was to be used for a charitable purpose chosen by his widow and approved of by her cotrustees. Hartwood Hospital was psychiatric asylum in Scotland. In the 1920s a further development on the site below the main buildings, near the entrance gates, was built. Spelunkers crawl. The site has been abandoned ever since, with the BBC using it for filming on a children's zombie show in 2015.. Edinburgh Live reports that Freeport's chairman, Sean Collidge, admitted at the . In the early twentieth century hospital was increasingly common. Will look into it. B. Wilson, on the pavilion plan, although the central pair of pavilions contained double wards, separated by a spine wall. Over the decades, the asylum was expanded as it succeeded as an establishment. The imposing main building is mostly of three storeys, its great length broken up by gabled bays and, at the centre, bold twin square towers. The site had been purchased in 1899 and a deputation of the building committee visited the continent in December 1899 to see asylum buildings there. Following the Mental Deficiency (Scotland) Act of 1913 further expansion occurred with the construction of a recreation hall, and more accommodation for children and staff. It was builtc.1965 9. In that year the management Committee of the Royal Northern Infirmary recommended a separate establishment for the mentally ill, recognising the unsuitability of housing such patients in the infirmary. The completion of Burns original scheme for the main building was carried out in 186771 by William Lambie Moffatt. It's a peaceful place today, one of many abandoned wartime airfields across Scotland, where weed-strewn runways and dispersals stand as lonely monuments to those turbulent years from 1939 to. The hospital closed in 1984. The asylum buildings also expanded and included many buildings of great significance in asylum design. In the construction of these a principle might be adopted which has never yet been fully carried out in asylums, viz of adaptation of each house or part of house to the varied needs and mental conditions of its inhabitants an asylum so constructed should contain all the medical appliances that would be likely to do good, it should have a billiard room, gymnasium, swimmingbath and work rooms. The Old House of Glack dates from 1723 and was converted into nurses accommodation when it was acquired by the Hospital. Archives. It was the only institution of its type in the North-East region and was extended in 1952 (Rocklands Cottage, adapted for 12 boys) and 1954 (50-bed extension). [Sources:Pevsner Architectural Guide,Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire,2016. This was a feature which persisted through at least the first half of the nineteenth century until gradually the quality of the staff available to work in the asylums as keepers and the conditions in which they worked improved. By 1818 there were 63 patients in the asylum and larger premises were needed. At this timeW. L. Moffattwas acting as architect to the asylum and he carried out various improvements. Instead a further revised scheme was drawn up to provide for those requiring total nursing. MERCHISTON HOSPITAL, JOHNSTONEThe present hospital was built c.197984 for the mentally handicapped. [Sources: 8thAnnual Report of the Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor in Scotland 1853,p.vi: Alan Heaton-WardLeft Behind: A Study of Mental Handicap,1978, pp.49-50, 53:The Builder, 7 July 1900, p.16;Buildings at Riskregister ]. Indeed, much of it has already been demolished following two serious fires. It was initially used as a home for 50 mentally handicapped children, opening in 1948 after having transferred to the National Health Service. In 1792 an appeal was launched but the response was small. They also looked onto the gardens and made access out of doors easier. In 1896 work was being carried out on a new house for private patients, the designs for this were prepared by William Kelly of Aberdeen, like Sydney Mitchell, he was well established in the field of hospital design. RAVENSCRAIG HOSPITAL, GREENOCKDesigned byJohn Starforthin 1876 as the Greenock Poorhouse and Parochial Asylum, it was later known as the Smithston Institution. This seems a shame when it is an interesting hospital, the earliest use of the colony plan in a mental deficiency hospital and forming a contrast to the vast Lennox Castle Hospital, which was designed with less apparent sympathy for the patients. The house itself was converted foroffice accommodation. [, asylum which had been steadily expanding since its construction in 1810. [Sources: Architect & Building News,July-Dec 1930 (2), p.161]. Originally created to cater for the 'curable lunatics' cases, the hospital struggled with securing funding and in rejecting patients which were not suitable for the intended purpose of the Asylum As Stark had observed, the design also had potential for expansion, and it was not long before additions were being made at the outer ends of the wings. The original building was completed in June 1781 and the first patient was admitted in May 1782. Expanding patient numbers led to the purchase of a new site in Hillside and the current hospital buildings opened in 1857. . The first and second floor windows are set in panels which rise to blindpointed arches. abandoned asylum edinburgh hospital mental outside scotland Hide this ad by donating or subscribing ! The site was divided into two sections for the medical and non-medical patients, with power station, workshops, bakery, stores, kitchen and laundry in the middle. MURRAY ROYAL HOSPITAL, PERTHThe Murray Royal Lunatic Asylum opened in 1827 and was designed byWilliam Burn. The house was converted into the institution byAlexander Cullen(junior) and it opened on 3 July 1923. A protective mask is also advised. hi janis, im doing a bit of research of this hospital and would love to hear from you, my research is about how mental health patients where treated by then and how things have changed, if you coudl email me that would be great to ask you some questions on it to add in, WELL I KNEW SOMEONE WHO WAS IN HARTWOOD HOSPITAL WITH THE NAME OF BILLY MCALLUM HAD A KILT RUCK SACK VERY MUCH INTO WALKING AND WAVING TO CARS PASSING BY WELL HE WAS FROM SHOTTS VERY DECENT BUT QUIET GENTLEMEN USE TO BEABLE TO DO VERY NICE ART WORK OF THE TWIN TOWERS AND EVERY AREA IN HARTWOOD HOSPITAL HE ALSO SHOWN HE A WORK OF ART OF THE TV MAST OVER IN SALSBURGH AREA HE WAS A VERY GOOD ARTIST AND VERY FIT WALKER SMOKING I SUPPOSE DIDNT HELP THE MATTER BUT NO HE WAS MAYBE THIN BUT WAS AS FIT AS A FIDDLE DIDNT KNOW MUCH ABOUT HIS YOUNG DAYS WHETHER HE WAS A BIG DRINKER WASNT SURE IF HE WAS YOU HEAR STORIES BUT YOU DONT KNOW WHICH ONE WAS CORRECT OR IF ANY BUT I KNEW HE WOULD HAVE A WHISKY NOW N AGAIN ONCE IN A BLUE MOON BUT YEAH I KNEW PEOPLE WHO WORKED IN THE LAUNDRY A MARGRET STORRIE AND A MARGRET FRIEL AND I ALSO KNOW JOHN AND MICHEAL AKA MICKY KELLY FAE SHOTTS THEY WERE NURSES AND I ALSO KNEW GILLIAN K MULVEY A NURSE AS WELL N SOME OF THE MCSEVENEYS AND MCAULEYS WORKED THERE TOO THEY TOO WERE ALL FROM SHOTTS WHICH IS WHERE I WAS BORN AND BREAD BUT YEA I KNEW SOME OF THE NURSES AND PATIENTS IN THIS PLACE. It was designed byJ. Its foundation was largely due to Susan Carnegie of Charleton who was moved by the plight of lunatics imprisoned in Montrose Tollbooth. During the 1930s the hospital was remodelled and Elmhill house converted into a nurses home. This substantial post-war hospital was designed for the mentally handicapped by, Hospitals for mental illnesses and disabilities in Scotland, former Royal Alexandra Infirmary, Paisley revisited, Atkinson Morley Hospital, now Wimbledon Hill Park, Ayr District Asylum, William Railtons unbuilt design, Lunatic at Large: an escaped patient from Ayr District Asylum, Building Bedlam Bethlem Royal Hospitals early incarnations, Building Bedlam again taking a leap forward to Monks Orchard, Brislington House, now Long Fox Manor, Georgian Bristols exclusive private madhouse, Bristol Lunatic Asylum, now the Glenside Campus of UWE, Craighouse, Edinburgh: former private asylum, future housing development, Dry January? At the auction of the MacKirdy household effects many items were purchased by the Council and mostly remain in the house today {1991}. A new Nurses home was constructed in 1955. It was the second district asylum to open in Scotland. In 1959 a new twostorey extension, Henderson House was opened on 11 December, which provided 80 beds and relieved some of the overcrowding at the hospital. She received electric shock treatment and from this she died of a cardiac arrest. It was a major landmark on the Glasgow to Edinburgh railway line. The hospital was declared surplus by 2003 and had closed by the end of 2004. Other extensions and additions included the farm buildings and a nurses home which was later extended in 1939. It's spooky season all year round here in Scotland. LENNOX CASTLE HOSPITAL, LENNOXTOWNLennox Castle, situated at the western edge of the hospital complex, was built between 1837 and 1841 to designs byDavid Hamilton. [Sources:Aberdeen Royal Mental Hospitalprospectus on Daviot Village website;Aberdeen Press & Journal, 22 July 2014, article on sale of No.1, House of Daviot.]. In 1894 the east and west wings were extended again and a separate fever hospital opened. News By Kaite Welsh 19:15, 5 JUL 2021 The hospital closed after WW2 and was sold. The plan, which combined single rooms with wide corridors serving as day rooms with small wards, became the standard plan for subsequent asylums and was adopted by the Board of Lunacy for the early District Asylums. The male and female sections each consisted of ten dormitory blocks for 60 patients. In 1931 the nurses home, with its two ogee-roofed octagonal central turrets, was extended byE. J. MacRaewith a large new wing, blending sympathetically with the original block. It provided accommodation for 100 nursing and domestic staff. Masterplanning for the re-use and development of the surplus hospital buildings and land commenced in October 2013. This enabled the site at Morningside to be purchased. [Sources:C. C. Easterbrook, The Chronicle of Crichton Royal (18331936), Dumfries, 1940: G. B. Turner, The Chronicle of Crichton Royal 1937 1971, Cumbria,1980 Dumfries and Galloway Health Board Archives, plans.].