Basic Site Details Name: | Lennox Castle | Town, district or village: | Lennoxtown | City or county: | Stirlingshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Provision is being made in the plans for the extensive buildings at Lennox Castle Hospital for a completely equipped theatre with stage and cinematographic apparatus. The architects are Messrs Wright and Wylie, 204 West Regent-street, Glasgow. [Builder 29 June 1934 Page 1131]
Cost of 1972 work £500,000
Cost of 1980s wards: £2million.
Original house - Norman style | Alternative NamesThe following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | | Name | Current name? | Notes |  | Certified Mental Deficiency Institution | | After conversion and additions, post-1929. |  | Hospital for Mental Defectives | | After conversion and additions, post-1929. |  | Lennox Castle Certified Institution for Mental Defectives | | After conversion and additions, post-1929. |  | Lennox Castle Hospital | Yes | After conversion and additions, post-1929. |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes |  | 1837 | 1841 | Construction | |  | 1929 | 1936 | Alteration/conversion | Conversion of Lennox Castle into nurses' home, and addition of numerous blocks on the estate to form hospital. Also extensive buildings for a theatre/cinema in hospital grounds proposed as well as houses, chapel, dining halls, wards etc |  | 1949 | | | 240-bed building at Craigend Farm |  | Before 1970 | | Alterations and additions | Supporting architectural services in respect of engineering works. |  | 1972 | | Alterations and additions | Alterations - cost £500,000 |  | After 1982 | Before 1990 | Addition | Ward units |
PeopleDesign and ConstructionThe following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column. | | Name | Role | Partnership Group | From | To | Notes |  | D & J Hamilton | Architectural practice | A | 1837 | 1841 | Original mansion house |  | David Hamilton | Architect | A | 1837 | 1841 | Original mansion house |  | John Baird the Second | Architect | A | 1837 | 1841 | Original mansion house - as assistant to D & J Hamilton |  | Alexander Wright | Architect | B | 1929 | 1936 | Conversion of Lennox Castle into nurses' home, and addition of numerous blocks on the estate to form hospital. Also extensive buildings for a theatre/cinema in hospital grounds proposed. |  | Edward Grigg Wylie | Architect | B | 1929 | 1936 | Conversion of Lennox Castle into nurses' home, and addition of numerous blocks on the estate to form hospital. Also extensive buildings for a theatre/cinema in hospital grounds proposed. |  | Frederick Robert Wylie | Architect | B | 1929 | 1936 | Conversion of Lennox Castle into nurses' home, and addition of numerous blocks on the estate to form hospital. Also extensive buildings for a theatre/cinema in hospital grounds proposed. |  | John Eadie Waddel Dallachy | Architect | B | 1929 | 1933 | Conversion of Lennox Castle into nurses' home, and addition of numerous blocks on the estate to form hospital - as assistant to Wylie Wright & Wylie |  | Wylie, Wright & Wylie | Architectural practice | B | 1929 | 1935 | Conversion of Lennox Castle into nurses' home, and addition of numerous blocks on the estate to form hospital. Also extensive buildings for a theatre/cinema in hospital grounds proposed. |  | Wylie, Shanks & Wylie | Architectural practice | B | 1936 | 1936 | Conversion of Lennox Castle into nurses' home, and addition of numerous blocks on the estate to form hospital. Also extensive buildings for a theatre/cinema in hospital grounds proposed. |  | Alexander McAnally (sometimes misspelt McNally or Macannally) | Architect | | 1949 | | 240-bed buildings at Craigend Farm |  | Dennis John Richard Garnett | Architect | D | Before 1970 | | Supporting architectural services in respect of engineering works. |  | Duncan Shearer Bremner | Architect | D | Before 1970 | | Supporting architectural services in respect of engineering works. |  | John Armstrong Lane | Architect | D | Before 1970 | | Supporting architectural services in respect of engineering works. |  | Lane Bremner & Garnett | | D | Before 1970 | | Supporting architectural services in respect of engineering works. |  | Dennis John Richard Garnett | Architect | H | 1972 | | Alterations - cost £500,000 |  | Duncan Shearer Bremner | Architect | H | 1972 | | Alterations - cost £500,000 |  | John Armstrong Lane | Architect | H | 1972 | | Alterations - cost £500,000 |  | Lane Bremner & Garnett | | H | 1972 | | Alterations - cost £500,000 |  | (Professor) Charles Calthorpe Robertson | Architect | E | After 1982 | Before 1990 | Ward units |  | The Charles Robertson Partnership | Architectural practice | E | After 1982 | Before 1990 | Ward units |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes |  | Glasgow Corporation | Client for conversion into hospital, and new hospital blocks |  | Greater Glasgow Health Board | Client for 1980s ward units |  | Lennox, J L Kincaid | Client for David Hamilton building |  | Western Regional Hospital Board | Client for work from 1949 |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Cameron, J | 1892 | The Parish of Campsie | | Kirkintilloch | p162-4 |  | Darragh, Alison | 2011 | Prison or Palace? Heaven or Hell? An architectural and social study of the development of public lunatic asylums in Scot | | Unpublished PhD thesis, University of St Andrews | vol 2, pp 303-6 vol 3, pp 107-9 Cites 'Lennox Castle' booklet produced for opening, 1936 |  | Gifford, John and Walker, Frank Arneil | 2002 | Stirling and Central Scotland (The Buildings of Scotland) | | New Haven and London: Yale University Press | pp591-5 |  | Glasgow Corporation | 1936 | The Book of Lennox Castle | | Glasgow, c1936 | |  | New Statistical Account of Scotland | | New Statistical Account of Scotland | | | viii, 244 |  | RCAHMS | | Inventory of Stirlingshire | | | Vol 2, p358 |  | RIBA | 1975 | RIBA Directory of practices | | | |  | Richardson, Harriet | N.D. | Scottish Hospitals Survey | | Unpublished typescript (copy in DMW Archive) | Listed as Lennox Castle Hospital |  | Ritchie, A. L. | 1936 | Lennox Castle Mental Defectives' Institution | | City and Counties Publishing Co. Ltd. | Subtitle: "A Historical Account of the Acquisition of Lennox Estate by Glasgow Corporation and a Complete and Detailed Narrative of the Building of a Million Pounds Hospital" |  | Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts | 1936 | | | | 337 |  | Watters, Diane | 1994 | David Hamilton's Lennox Csatle | V | Architectural Heritage | |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | Architect and Building News | 1932 | Jan-June | | p322 |  | Architect and Building News | 1935 | Jul-Dec | | p62 |  | Builder | 29 June 1934 | | | p113 |  | Glasgow Herald | 15 May 1936 | | | p12 |  | Glasgow Herald | 29 September 1936 | | | Illustration |  | RIBA Journal | September 1954 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | Obituary of Wylie |  | Scotland on Sunday | 21 September 1997 | | | p9 Photograph and article on official report of conditions in the hospital |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | DMW Archive | Research notes for 'Scottish Thirties' by Charles McKean | | |  | Professor Charles Robertson's CV | Information sent from Professor Charles Robertson to Yvonne Hillyard, October 2010 | | |  | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | Alexander McAnally: F no4570 (box 22); Edward Grigg Wylie: F no4241 (Combined Box 3); Frederick Robert Wylie: F no 4242 (Combined Box 3); Duncan S Bremner: F no7295 (Combined Box 183) |
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