Basic Site Details Name: | Fife and Kinross District Asylum | Town, district or village: | Springfield, Cupar | City or county: | Fife | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | Cupar | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Totel cost of original scheme (1860-66): £30,000 (including furnishings). Cost of superintendent's house, lodge and gateway: £1,645. | Alternative NamesThe following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | | Name | Current name? | Notes |  | Fife & Kinross Lunatic Asylum | | |  | Fife and Kinross Asylum | | |  | Kinross District Asylum | | |  | Springfield Asylum | | |  | Stratheden Asylum | | |  | Stratheden Hospital | Yes | |
Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes |  | Psychiatric hospital | | |  | Mortuary | | |  | Chapel | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes |  | 1860 | | | Competition held |  | March 1863 | | | Drawings dated |  | 1864 | 1866 | Construction | Built, including superintendent's house, lodge and gateway |  | 1869 | | | Detached block |  | 1879 | | | Detached block (cost: £7,000) |  | 1888 | | | Additions |  | 1891 | | | Additions |  | 1892 | | | New Block |  | 1902 | | | Two new blocks |  | 1904 | | | General additions and alterations |  | 1908 | | | General additions and alterations |  | 1911 | 1913 | | New block (cost: £19,000; contractor: G Good & Co) |  | 1912 | | | Male side; female side; verandah at male side; dining hall; recreation hall; emergency staircase; electric cable extension; alterations to administrative block; proposed general store |  | 1927 | 1929 | | Institution for Fife & Kinross District Board of Control; home for 89 nurses; six attendants' houses (cost: c. £30,000) |  | 1930 | | | Twelve cottages |  | 1933 | | | Central kitchen |  | 1934 | 1935 | | Extensions: new 100-bed treatment hospital and administrative accommodation (cost: c. £53,400), mortuary and chapel |  | 1935 | 1937 | | Extension accommodating 100 patients and 16 nurses, plus mortuary |  | c. 1936 | | | Site plan |  | 12 December 1952 * | | Addition | 'Extension' to be made (per Builder 12 Dec 1952, p892) |  | After 1954 | Before 1958 | | Units for patients with mental health problems |  | 1968 | | Alterations and additions | Psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents. administration and central blocks, classrooms and dormitory wing |  | 1972 | | Reconstruction | Wards upgraded |  | Before 1981 | | Alterations and additions | Ward upgrade |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
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 |  | Brown & Wardrop | Architectural practice | A | 1860 | | Competition design |  | James Maitland Wardrop | Architect | A | 1860 | | Competition design |  | Thomas Brown II | Architect | A | 1860 | | Competition design |  | Charles George Hood Kinnear | Architect | B | 1863 | 1866 | Built, including superintendent's house, lodge and gateway |  | John Dick Peddie | Architect | B | 1863 | 1866 | Built, including superintendent's house, lodge and gateway |  | Peddie & Kinnear | Architectural practice | B | 1863 | 1866 | Built, including superintendent's house, lodge and gateway |  | Charles George Hood Kinnear | Architect | C | 1869 | | Further block |  | John Dick Peddie | Architect | C | 1869 | | Further block |  | Peddie & Kinnear | Architectural practice | C | 1869 | | Further block |  | Charles George Hood Kinnear | Architect | D | 1879 | | Detached block (cost: £7,000) |  | John Dick Peddie | Architect | D | 1879 | | Detached block (cost: £7,000) |  | John More Dick Peddie | Architect | D | 1879 | | Detached block (cost: £7,000) |  | Peddie, Kinnear & Peddie | Architectural practice | D | 1879 | | Detached block (cost: £7,000) |  | Charles George Hood Kinnear | Architect | E | 1888 | | Additions |  | John More Dick Peddie | Architect | E | 1888 | | Additions |  | Kinnear & Peddie | Architectural practice | E | 1888 | | Additions |  | Charles George Hood Kinnear | Architect | F | 1891 | | Further additions |  | David Suttie McIlroy | Architect | F | 1891 | | Further additions - as assistant to Kinnear & Peddie |  | James Alexander Arnott | Architect | F | 1891(?) | | as assistant to Kinnear & Peddie |  | John More Dick Peddie | Architect | F | 1891 | | Further additions |  | Kinnear & Peddie | Architectural practice | F | 1891 | | Further additions |  | James Ross Gillespie | Architect | G | 1892 | | New block |  | James Scott | Architect | G | 1892 | | New block - as assistant to James Ross Gillespie (and effectively in charge of design for the practice) |  | Gillespie & Scott | Architectural practice | H | 1902 | | Two new blocks |  | James Ross Gillespie | Architect | H | 1902 | | Two new blocks |  | James Scott | Architect | H | 1902 | | Two new blocks |  | William Walker | Architect | H | 1902 | | Two new blocks - as apprentice/assistant to Gillespie & Scott |  | Gillespie & Scott | Architectural practice | K | 1904 | | General additions and alterations |  | James Ross Gillespie | Architect | K | 1904 | | General additions and alterations |  | James Scott | Architect | K | 1904 | | General additions and alterations |  | Gillespie & Scott | Architectural practice | L | 1908 | | General additions and alterations |  | James Ross Gillespie | Architect | L | 1908 | | General additions and alterations |  | James Scott | Architect | L | 1908 | | General additions and alterations |  | Andrew David Haxton | Architect | I | 1911(?) | 1913 | New block (cost: £19,000; contractor: G Good & Co) |  | Gillespie & Scott | Architectural practice | I | 1911(?) | 1913 | New block (cost: £19,000; contractor: G Good & Co) |  | James Ross Gillespie | Architect | I | 1911(?) | 1913 | New block (cost: £19,000; contractor: G Good & Co) |  | James Scott | Architect | I | 1911(?) | 1913 | New block (cost: £19,000; contractor: G Good & Co) |  | Gillespie & Scott | Architectural practice | J | 1912 | | Male side; female side; verandah at male side; dining hall; recreation hall; emergency staircase; electric cable extension; alterations to administrative block; proposed general store |  | James Ross Gillespie | Architect | J | 1912 | | Male side; female side; verandah at male side; dining hall; recreation hall; emergency staircase; electric cable extension; alterations to administrative block; proposed general store |  | James Scott | Architect | J | 1912 | | Male side; female side; verandah at male side; dining hall; recreation hall; emergency staircase; electric cable extension; alterations to administrative block; proposed general store |  | Andrew David Haxton | Architect | K | 1927 | 1929 | Institution for Fife & Kinross District Board of Control; home for 89 nurses; six attendants' houses (cost: c. £30,000) |  | Andrew David Haxton | Architect | L | 1930 | | Twelve cottages |  | Andrew David Haxton | Architect | M | 1933 | | Central kitchen and alterations (cost: £5,000) |  | Andrew David Haxton | Architect | N | 1934 | 1935 | Extensions: new 100-bed treatment hospital and administrative accommodation (cost: c. £53,400), mortuary and chapel |  | Walter Alison | Architect | O | 1935 | 1937 | Extension accommodating 100 patients and 16 nurses, plus mortuary: won competition to secure job |  | Gillespie & Scott | Architectural practice | M | c. 1936 | | Site plan |  | James Scott | Architect | M | c. 1936 | | Site plan |  | John Holt | Architect | U | After 1954 | Before 1958 | Units for patients with mental health problems - for South East Regional Hospital Board |  | South East Regional Hospital Board, Architect's Department (or South Eastern Hospital Board) | Architectural Department (New Towns etc) | U | After 1954 | Before 1958 | Units for patients with mental health problems |  | Walter Scott | | U | After 1954 | Before 1958 | Units for patients with mental health problems - for South East Regional Hospital Board |  | (Sir) Harry Anthony Wheeler (or simply Sir Anthony Wheeler) | Architect | S | 1968 | | Psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents. administration and central blocks, classrooms and dormitory wing |  | Andrew Glen Weir | Architect | S | 1968 | | Psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents. administration and central blocks, classrooms and dormitory wing |  | Donald McInnes | Architect | S | 1968 | | Psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents. administration and central blocks, classrooms and dormitory wing |  | Frank Sproson | Architect | S | 1968 | | Psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents. administration and central blocks, classrooms and dormitory wing |  | Wheeler & Sproson | Architectural practice | S | 1968 | | Psychiatric inpatient unit for adolescents. administration and central blocks, classrooms and dormitory wing |  | Bamber Gray & Partners | Architectural practice | T | 1972 | | Wards upgraded |  | Douglas Haig Bamber | Architect | T | 1972 | | Wards upgraded |  | Gilbert Andre Gray | Architect | T | 1972 | | Wards upgraded |  | James Robertson Laidlaw | Architect | T | 1972 | | Wards upgraded |  | L A Rolland & Partners | Architect | U | Before 1981 | | War upgrade |  | Lawrence ('Larry') Anderson Lyon Rolland | Architect | U | Before 1981 | | Ward upgrade |
ClientsThe following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design: | | Name | Notes |  | Fife Joint Asylum Committee | |
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes |  | Commissioners in Lunacy | 1865 | Annual Report, 1865 | | | |  | 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 232-4 vol 3, pp 75-8 |  | Gifford, John | 1988 | Fife (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p412 |  | Millar, A H | 1895 | Fife pictorial and historical | | Cupar | Volume I, p 140 |  | Pride, Glen L | 1999 | The Kingdom of Fife | 2nd Edition | The Rutland Press | p105 |  | RIBA | 1981 | Directory of Practices 1981 | | | |  | Richardson, Harriet | N.D. | Scottish Hospitals Survey | | Unpublished typescript (copy in DMW Archive) | Listed as Stratheden Hospital |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes |  | Architect | 6 July 1888 | XL | | Supplement, p 2 |  | Architect | 26 June 1891 | XLV | | Supplement, p 1 |  | Architect | 20 October 1911 | LXXXVI | | Supplement, p 14 |  | Architect and Building News | 22 February 1929 | CXXI | | p 282 |  | Architect and Building News | 1933 | Jul-Dec | | p311 |  | Architect and Building News | 13 January 1933 | | | Central kitchen |  | Architect and Building News | 13 January 1933 | CXXXIII | | p 91 |  | Architect and Building News | 11 May 1934 | CXXXVIII | | p 174 |  | Architect and Building News | 18 January 1935 | CXLI | | p 118 |  | British Architect | 25 July 1879 | XII | | p 32 |  | Builder | 1913 | CIV | | p 258 |  | Builder | Late 1914 | CVII | | p 88 - obituary of Gillespie |  | Builder | 15 July 1927 | CXXXIII | | p 112 |  | Builder | 12 October 1928 | CXXXV | | p 613 |  | Builder | 29 August 1930 | CXXXIX | | p 361 |  | Builder | 1 September 1933 | CXLV | | p 361 |  | Builder | 16 November 1934 | CXLVII | | p 870 |  | Builder | 15 November 1935 | CXLIX | | pp 869 & 878 |  | Builder | 22 May 1936 | CL | | p 1046 |  | Builder | 30 April 1937 | CLII | | p 950 |  | Builder | 12 December 1952 | | | p892 |  | Building News | 20 February 1863 | X | | p 148 |  | Building News | 12 August 1864 | XI | | p 621 |  | Building News | 1865 | XII | | p 292 |  | Building News | 29 June 1866 | | | |  | Building News | 1898 | LXXIV | | p 254 |  | North British Advertiser | 16 May 1863 | | | |  | North British Advertiser | 17 April 1869 | | | |  | Scotsman | 31 July 2010 | | | p.49: obituary of Walter Scott |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes |  | Courtesy of Frank Sproson | Correspondence with Yvonne Hillyard, 2011 | | |  | Courtesy of James Robertson Laidlaw | Information sent to Dictionary | | Sent April 2010 |  | Edinburgh University Library | Anderson Collection (Plans and drawings) | | |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Dick Peddie and McKay Collection | | DPM 1860/12/7 |  | National Monuments Record of Scotland/NMRS, RCAHMS | Haxton & Watson Collection | | HW 1920/11/38-41 & 43 |  | RIBA Archive, Victoria & Albert Museum | RIBA Nomination Papers | | James Alexander Arnott: L v3 no172 (microfilm reel 30); Andrew David Haxton: L v24 no1962; David Suttie McIlroy: L v5 no305; William Walker: L v26 no2132 |  | Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland | Canmore | 260713 | |  | St Andrews University Library | James Gillespie and Scott Archive | | Bundles nos 881, 961, 1339, 1452-9, 1550-3, 2401 |
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