Maps, Plans and Associated Material

Architectural plans and copy plans for hospital buildings, 1858-1997; site plan of lairs purchased by Crichton Royal Institution in St Mary's Church yard, c.1859-1886; and estate maps drawn up for various reasons, 1913-c.1950. Detailed specification and schedule of rates for work to be undertaken on the First House, 1908.

1858-1997

2 linear metres

The first building at the Crichton site was Crichton Royal Institution, completed in 1839 and designed by Architect William Burn, now known as Crichton Hall. This was followed by Crichton House, completed in 1842, now known as Campbell House and Southern Counties Asylum, completed in 1849, and demolished gradually in the 1920s. Additional residences and works buildings were built and extensions made to Crichton Hall, Crichton House and Southern Counties Asylum in the second half of the nineteenth century. Crichton Memorial Church was designed by Edinburgh Architects, Sydney Mitchell and Wilson and was built between 1890 and 1897. The extensive expansion of the hospital began at the end of the 1890s under Physician Superintendent Dr J. Rutherford and was continued by his successor, Dr C. C. Easterbrook. The expansion saw numerous buildings erected to create a colony system with several building serving each Department of the hospital. Many of these buildings were designed by Edinburgh Architect Sydney Mitchell. The majority of the original plans for Crichton Royal Hospital are not held by Dumfries Archive Service, in the main, only those for buildings no longer standing. Plans for buildings managed by Crichton Development Company were deposited with them and plans for buildings still under NHS Dumfries and Galloway ownership (Crichton Hall and the Hospice) are held by NHS Dumfries and Galloway's Estates and Property Services.

Crichton Memorial Church, ground floor plan, in Chaplain's File, DGH1/3/5/19. Plans by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, the architect firm which designed many of the buildings at Crichton Royal Hospital built between 1890 and 1914, are held by Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, SMW1880.

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The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.