Opened in 1864, it is Scotland's third oldest DISTRICT asylum. History of Craig Dunain Hospital, Inverness, formerly Inverness District Asylum, to mark its centenary. Hospital Name: Craig Dunain Hospital Previous Names: Inverness District Asylum, Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum Location: Inverness, IV3 8GW Principal Architect: James Matthews Layout: Corridor Plan Status: Converted Opened: 1864 Closed: 2000 Sign Up. Facebook. 1358. Inserted into this booklet is a newspaper cutting about the closure of the hospital and a photocopied article about photographs of the hospital. The hospital, which was designed by James Matthews, opened as the Inverness District Asylum in May 1864. Accessibility Help. Inverness. Email or Phone: Password: Forgot account? Jump to. Craig Dunain Hospital (Former) Other Name(s) Inverness District Asylum (Former); Northern Counties District Lunatic Asylum (Former) Address. Craig Dunain. Inverness District Asylum, otherwise known as the Northern Counties Asylum, opened in 1864. Latterly it was renamed Craig Dunain Hospital and treated patients suffering from mental illness until 2000.
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To view digitised material with Terms & Conditions or a Library account login, you can either use an alternative web browser or enable third-party cookies in this browser.From: Records of Crichton Royal HospitalWe will reopen our doors on 7 October 2020. The hospital closed in 1999 and is now very much underway with development works. Locality. Since then parts of the building have been converted to housing, while … Continue reading → See more of Haunted Inverness on … Locate, request and find out more about this item.We are currently unable to offer full access to digitised materials in your browser because it has third-party cookies disabled. The former hospital is a Category B listed building. Craig Dunain is quite notorious for the ways it treated patients, especially when it came to ECT. More information about using the library, and the safety measures we will take to protect you, will be available soon. Sections of this page. Craig Dunain Hospital was a mental health facility near Inverness in Scotland. Craig Dunain asylum is the northern district lunatic asylum, the most northerly in the UK.
Divisional Area. Planning Authority. Press alt + / to open this menu. See more of Haunted Inverness on Facebook. People from all over the highlands and outer hebrides were sent here, so in that respect, I guess it could also have had the widest catchment area too. Craig Dunain Hospital (Northern Counties District Asylum) Size (extra): Small by UK asylum standards, but housed 2000 patients from all over the Highlands at its peak Hazards: 24-hour security inside main asylum building, some dodgy floors and ceilings, rabid escaped rottweilers, disorientating once inside building Postcode. IV3 8GW. or. This was the Highland district lunatic asylum, so probably covered the biggest land area than most other asylums in the UK.