1864 – Lunatic Asylum, Carmarthen, Wales
“This asylum is now being erected for the joint counties of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan, on an elevated and picturesque site,
“This asylum is now being erected for the joint counties of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan, on an elevated and picturesque site,
Gothic revival institution not much larger than a large Victorian house “for respectable but reduced aged protestants”,
Large District lunatic asylum erected to a design by George Wilkinson (1814-90). It has a symmetrical plan comprising nine-bay two-storey central block centred on three-bay two-storey pedimented projecting breakfront with five-bay two-storey projecting “pavilions”
The District Asylum was designed by James Bell and James Barry Farrell in the Italianate style,
Now known as the Downshire Hospital. “This building, of which we give an elevation and plans,
From The Builder, April 2, 1870: THE subject of the accompanying illustration is the newly erected asylum for the reception of the insane poor of the county of Berks and boroughs of Reading and Newbury.
Large complex of buildings built between 1869-71. McCurdy was picked after an architectural competition in 1863 with nineteen competitors from England,
From The Building News, August 23 1872: “”Mens.” — The elevations of this design are treated in a clever and artistic manner The centre block,
The original Home was founded in 1872 by Miss Frances Fitzgerald Gregg and was located in Albert House,