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Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Chalmers Hospital

Hospital (19th Century)

Site Name Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Chalmers Hospital

Classification Hospital (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Chalmers Street; Archibald Place

Canmore ID 124160

Site Number NT27SE 1995

NGR NT 25251 73042

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Edinburgh, City Of
  • Parish Edinburgh (Edinburgh, City Of)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District City Of Edinburgh
  • Former County Midlothian

Architecture Notes

See also NT27SE 2005 Edinburgh, 2, 4, 6, 8, Archibald Place

NT27SE 1864 Edinburgh, Lauriston Place, Lauriston House

Activities

Standing Building Recording (May 2009)

NT 25248 73036 A Level 2 historic building survey was undertaken in May 2009 before the partial demolition and renovation of the building. The hospital was constructed in the 1860s with a bequest from plumber George Chalmers and closed in 2008. The original building, a 17 x 1 bay four-storey building in ashlar with an elaborate entrance bay, consisted of four main wards on two floors on either side of a central block. It had been extended to the S with the addition of verandas to the main wards, a two-storey block to the SW and a large 1930s Y-block. Despite being modified to accommodate the needs of a modern hospital the building had retained some of its original internal features; including cornicing, some timber panelling to the windows

and fireplace surrounds.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: NHS Lothian

Diana Sproat – AOC Archaeology Group

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