Buildings

14 May 2012
1864 – Craig Dunain Hospital, Inverness, Scotland

1864 – Craig Dunain Hospital, Inverness, Scotland

Architect: James Matthews Craig Dunain Hospital was the only hospital for psychiatric illness in the Highlands, and formerly the Highland District Lunatic Asylum – Scotland’s third oldest district asylum. Closed in 1999, in...

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14 May 2012
1879 – Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland

1879 – Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh, Scotland

Architect: David Bryce The new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, constructed between 1870 and 1879 provided anunprecedented 600 beds, arranged in eight three-storey pavilions with one large ward on each floor. At the time...

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14 May 2012
1834 – Crichton Royal Asylum, Dumfries, Scotland

1834 – Crichton Royal Asylum, Dumfries, Scotland

Architect: William Burn Designed with two central octagonal towers from which wings for the patients extended, Burns work at Crichton was a very ambitious project that was ultimately not completed. Only one of...

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10 May 2012
1879 – Elm Grove Baptist Church, Southsea, Hampshire

1879 – Elm Grove Baptist Church, Southsea, Hampshire

Architect: Paull & Bonella Perspective View including ground plan published in The Building News, November 21st 1879. Badly damaged during attacks on Portsmouth during the Second World War.

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10 May 2012
1879 – Pair of Villas, Stow Park Estate, Lincolnshire

1879 – Pair of Villas, Stow Park Estate, Lincolnshire

Architect: A.O. Watkins & Sons Designed for John Mason Esq., perspective view & ground plan

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08 May 2012
1727 – Corn Market House, Thomas St., Dublin

1727 – Corn Market House, Thomas St., Dublin

The Corn Market building was a long arcaded structure, the ground floor of which was completely open to the street. With thirteen arches on each side, and a central cupola, it was a...

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07 May 2012
1796 – Dublin Society, Hawkins St., Dublin

1796 – Dublin Society, Hawkins St., Dublin

Architect: Henry Aaron Baker & Edward Parke In 1796 the Dublin Society moved from their building on Grafton Street, to Hawkins Street where they already had their “Repository.” The Society having taken additional...

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07 May 2012
1767 – Dublin Society, No. 112-113 Grafton St., Dublin

1767 – Dublin Society, No. 112-113 Grafton St., Dublin

The first home of the Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society) on Grafton Street. The architect Thomas Ivory was commissioned to design the museum inside the building, but the architect of the...

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07 May 2012
1775 – The Marshalsea, Dublin

1775 – The Marshalsea, Dublin

Built near the rear of Bridgefoot Street and Bonham Street to replace an earlier Marshalsea between Christ Church Cathedral amd Wood Quay. The Marshalsea was a debtors prison allowing debtors along with their...

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