Bilbohall Hospital | |
Region: | Elgin, Moray |
Country: | Scotland |
Healthcare: | NHS Scotland |
Type: | Psychiatric hospital |
Speciality: | Psychiatry |
Emergency: | No |
Founded: | 1835 |
Closed: | 1995 |
Map Type: | Scotland Moray |
Coordinates: | 57.6454°N -3.333°W |
Bilbohall Hospital was a mental health facility located to the west of Dr Gray's Hospital in Elgin, Scotland.
The hospital, which was designed by Archibald Simpson, opened as the Elgin District Asylum in 1835.[1] [2] It was extended by A & W Reid in the 1860s and a third storey was added in the 1880s.[1] It became the Morayshire Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as Bilbohall Hospital in 1948.[3] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in April 1995.[4] [5] The buildings were demolished in the late 1990s.[1]