Lennox Castle Hospital lies in ruins in Lennoxtown, north of Glasgow.
The large three-story building was designed by architect David Hamilton in 1837, not as a hospital but as a grand castle.
The neo-Norman style building took four years to complete and featured a five storey-high tower. The building remained as a home until the First World War when it was temporarily used as a military hospital.
This must have worked well as when Glasgow City Council were looking for locations for a new psychiatric hospital in 1925, Lennox Castle was chosen and they bought the estate two years later for £25,000. Over £1 million was spent converting the site and constructing new ancillary buildings to make it a state of the art hospital. It was officially opened in 1936 with capacity for 1,200 patients.
The castle was vacated in 1987 with patients and staff gradually leaving the site and moving to other hospitals. In 2002 the hospital closed its doors for the last time.
2008 saw the interior ravished with very little surviving other than the stone shell of the building.
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5 дек 2023
