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7. Mai 2022 · Lennox Castle Facility: The palace ruins in Lennoxtown, Glasgow, Scotland, are indeed a popular destination for urban explorers, but very few are conscious of the castle-turned-long hospitals as well as Lennox castle history. David Hamilton, a designer, developed the three-story structure throughout 1837. His layout even included a five-story ...
History. Lennox Castle was built between 1837 and 1841, in the square style of a Norman castle for John Lennox Kincaid by architect David Hamilton (1768 - 1843). The large, three storey red sandstone mansion has battlemented corner towers, a five story tower, and a large entrance porch to the north. During World War I, the castle was ...
Introduction. The extensive designed landscape associated with the mid-19th-century Lennox Castle retains its essential 19th-century layout despite its development as a mental hospital in the early-20th century. Features include substantial tree belts, a walled garden and the ruins of a 16th-century tower house.
Administrative / Biographical History. The estate of Lennox Castle in Lennoxtown, 13 miles North of Glasgow, was bought by Glasgow Parish Council in 1927 to build a hospital for people with learning disabilities, and which was to be called Lennox Castle Hospital. Patients then were known as mental defectives.
Lennox Castle was chosen, in a way it chose itself, because I knew Howard Mitchell through the Oral History Network. Howard was an anthropologist who’d been working, researching the history of Lennox Castle for his PhD and he’d been carrying out interviews with staff and residents and ex-residents and I thought, I’d heard him talk about ...
Thus, the construction of Lennox Castle began, and it was completed between 1837 and 1841. During World War I, the castle was requisitioned to serve as a military hospital, fulfilling a vital role during the war. In 1927, George Peareth Kincaid Lennox sold the castle, along with 1,222 acres of the Lennox Kincaid estate, to establish a permanent ...
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