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 | | A | 1837 | 1841 | Original mansion house | | David Hamilton | | A | 1837 | 1841 | Original mansion house | | John Baird the Second | | A | 1837 | 1841 | Original mansion house - as assistant to D & J Hamilton | | Alexander Wright | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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 | | 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) | | | 1949 | | 240-bed buildings at Craigend Farm | | Dennis John Richard Garnett | | D | Before 1970 | | Supporting architectural services in respect of engineering works. | | Duncan Shearer Bremner | | D | Before 1970 | | Supporting architectural services in respect of engineering works. | | John Armstrong Lane | | 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 | | H | 1972 | | Alterations - cost £500,000 | | Duncan Shearer Bremner | | H | 1972 | | Alterations - cost £500,000 | | John Armstrong Lane | | H | 1972 | | Alterations - cost £500,000 | | Lane Bremner & Garnett | | H | 1972 | | Alterations - cost £500,000 | | (Professor) Charles Calthorpe Robertson | | E | After 1982 | Before 1990 | Ward units | | The Charles Robertson Partnership | | 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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