Basic Site Details Name: | Bangour Village Asylum | Town, district or village: | Uphall | City or county: | West Lothian | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | B listed | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Competition assessed by W W Robertson of the Office of Works.
Cost of Blanc's final scheme: £267,000.
Drawings for Bangour by Thomson & Sandilands seen by A G Lochhead, 1960, at Thomson McCrea & Sanders. | Alternative NamesThe following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | | Name | Current name? | Notes |  | Bangour Military Hospital | | |  | Bangour Village Hospital | Yes | |  | Edinburgh District Asylum | | Alternative original name |
Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Psychiatric hospital | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes |  | 1898 | 1906 | Construction | |  | 1898 | | Competition held | |  | 1899 | | | Won competition for design of administration block |  | 1901 | | Design exhibited | |  | 1904 | | Contract offered | Kitchens |  | 1915 | | | Operating theatres for Military Hospital |  | 1934 | | | Extension |  | 1969 | 1972 | Alteration/conversion | Improvements including kitchen and ward upgrade |
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 |  | Charles Henry Greig | Architect | E | 1897 | | Competition design for asylum, entered jointly with his employer, John Eaglesham - not successful, though was awarded a premium |  | John Eaglesham | Architect | E | 1897 | 1898 | Competition design for asylum, entered jointly with his assistant, Charles Henry Greig - not successful, though was awarded a premium |  | Alan Keith Robertson | Architect | A | 1898 | 1906(?) | Asylum - as assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |  | Hippolyte Jean Blanc | Architect | A | 1898 | 1906 | Won competition and secured job - for Asylum. Kitchens 1904. |  | Hugh Dykes Simpson | Architect | A | 1898 | 1899 | Asylum - as assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |  | James Davidson Cairns | Architect | A | 1898 | 1906 | Asylum - as assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |  | David McArthy | Architect | C | 1898 | | Won competition for design of administration block - and awarded first premium, but not the job |  | John Watson | Architect | C | 1898 | | Won competition for design of administration block - and awarded first premium, but not the job |  | McArthy & Watson | Architectural practice | C | 1898 | | Won competition for design of administration block - and awarded first premium, but not the job |  | John Thomson | Architect | D | 1898 | | Competition design for asylum - not successful, though was awarded a premium |  | Robert Douglas Sandilands | Architect | D | 1898 | | Competition design for asylum - not successful, though was awarded a premium |  | Thomson & Sandilands | Architectural practice | D | 1898 | | Competition design for asylum - not successful, though was awarded a premium |  | Alfred Lightly MacGibbon | Architect | F | 1898 | | Competition design for asylum - not successful, though was awarded a premium |  | MacGibbon & Ross | Architectural practice | F | 1898 | | Competition design for asylum - not successful, though was awarded a premium |  | Thomas Ross | Architect | F | 1898 | | Competition design for asylum - not successful, though was awarded a premium |  | James Christie | Architect | A | 1899 | 1900 | Asylum - as assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |  | John Manuel (junior) | Architect | A | 1899 | 1904 | Asylum - as assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |  | Douglas Pairman Hall | Architect | A | 1903 | 1906 | Asylum - as assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |  | James Alexander Arnott | Architect | A | 1904(?) | 1906(?) | Asylum - as assistant to Hippolyte Jean Blanc |  | James Jerdan & Son | Architectural practice | B | 1915 | | Operating theatres |  | John Jerdan | Architect | B | 1915 | | Operating theatres |  | Ebenezer James MacRae | Architect | | 1934 | | Extension |  | James P Hopton | Architect | S | 1969 | 1972 | Improvements including kitchen and ward upgrade |  | John Malcolm McIntosh (Mackintosh) | Architect | S | 1969 | 1972 | Improvements including kitchen and ward upgrade |  | Robert Yule Fergus | Architect | S | 1969 | 1972 | Improvements including kitchen and ward upgrade |  | Scott & McIntosh | Architectural practice | S | 1969 | 1976 | Improvements including kitchen and ward upgrade |  | Walter Scott | | S | 1969 | 1972 | Improvements including kitchen and ward upgrade |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes |  | Edinburgh Lunacy Board | |
Related Buildings, Structures and DesignsChild StructuresThis structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details): | | Building Name | Notes |  | Bangour General Hospital, Burns Unit | Cost of addition and alterations £52,000 |  | Bangour Hospital, occupational therapy unit | |  | Bangour Village Church | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, dormitory block (Villa 10) | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, dormitory block (Villa 18) | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, dormitory block (Villa 19) | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, dormitory block (Villa 20) | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, dormitory block (Villa 21) | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, dormitory block (Villa 7) | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, dormitory block (Villa 8) | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, dormitory block (Villa 9) | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, Honeysuckle Cottage | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, hospital block with wards 3, 4 and 5 | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, Nurses' Home | |  | Bangour Village Hospital, power station complex | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Academy Architecture | 1899 | | part 1 | | p85 (McArthy & Watson Ist premiated design) |  | Academy Architecture | 1906 | | Part 2 | | p62 |  | 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 272, 292-3, 294-5, 296-9 vol 3, pp 58-61 |  | Harper, Roger H | 1983 | Victorian Architectural Competitions: An Index to British and Irish Architectural Competitions… | | London: Mansell Publishing | |  | Hendrie, F and Macleod, D A D | 1991 | The Bangour Story | | | |  | J K and A M | 1916 | Edinburgh War Memorial Hospital, Bangour | | Edinburgh Medical Journal, March 1916, pp3-17 | |  | Keay, J | 1911 | Bangour Village | | Journal of Mental Science, April 1911, 57, pp408-411 | |  | McWilliam, Colin | 1978 | Lothian (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p90 |  | RIBA | 1975 | RIBA Directory of practices | | | |  | RIBA | 1981 | Directory of Practices 1981 | | | |  | Richardson, Harriet | N.D. | Scottish Hospitals Survey | | Unpublished typescript (copy in DMW Archive) | Listed as Bangour Village Hospital |  | RSA | 1899 | | | | 668 (McArthy & Watson) |  | RSA | 1901 | | | | 618 (Blanc) |  | Who's Who in Architecture | 1914 | | | | Gives McArthy & Watson's placing as second; states that Charles Henry Greig submitted design in partnership with John Eaglesham |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | Architect and Building News | 1934 | Jul-Dec | | p254 |  | British Architect | 18 January 1901 | | | p41. Cost reduction on the doctor's house required by Commissioners of Lunacy |  | British Architect | 17 June 1904 | | | pviii |  | Builder | 13 August 1898 | LXXV | | p124 |  | Edinburgh Medical Journal | March 1916 | | | |  | Lancet | 13 October 1906 | | | p1031 |  | RIBA Journal | 10 November 1906 | | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | |  | RIBA Journal | 21 March 1908 | Vol XV, no 10 | London: Royal Institute of British Architects | pp309-26: 'Bangour Village Asylum', article by H J Blanc |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | Historic Environment Scotland | Listed Buildings Register | 6588 | This covers the former administration block and wards 1 & 2 |  | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | James Alexander Arnott: L v3 no172 (microfilm reel 30); James Davidson Cairns: L v16 no1166; James Christie: L v16 no1180; Douglas Pairman Hall: L v18 no1312; John Manuel: L v25 no2022; Hugh Dykes Simpson: L v20 no1587 |  | Shona Adam, Granddaughter of John Jerdan | James Jerdan & Son Office Ledger | | |  | West Lothian Council | West Lothian Archives | D 14 | Photograph from about 1906. |
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