1843 – Glasgow Royal Asylum, Gartnavel, Scotland
An unusual design in Tudor Gothic, built in 1842-43, with the chapel completed in 1904. Initially built to hold 420 patients and later extended.
An unusual design in Tudor Gothic, built in 1842-43, with the chapel completed in 1904. Initially built to hold 420 patients and later extended.
The hospital was founded in 1721 by Thomas Guy (1644/45–27 December 1724), as a hospital to treat “incurables” discharged from St Thomas’
Founded as the Free Cancer Hospital in 1851 by Dr William Marsden at 1,
Perspective View published in The Builder, July 7th 1860.
“The design is in the Italian style of architecture. The site selected is a piece of land fronting a hospital in Hamilton-street,
Construction of the current hospital on its new site in Great George Street started in 1863 to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott.
Craig Dunain Hospital was the only hospital for psychiatric illness in the Highlands, and formerly the Highland District Lunatic Asylum –
King’s was originally opened in 1840 in the disused St Clements Dane workhouse in Portugal Street close to Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
Now part of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire, the Royal Infirmary at Hartshill was one of the earliest hospitals to be built on the pavilion system favoured by Florence Nightingale.
Now known as the Downshire Hospital. “This building, of which we give an elevation and plans,