| Murray Royal Hospital | |
| Org/Group: | NHS Tayside |
| Location: | Perth, Perth and Kinross |
| Country: | Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Healthcare: | NHS Scotland |
| Type: | Specialist |
| Speciality: | Mental health |
| Emergency: | No |
| Coordinates: | 56.3998°N -3.4181°W |
The Murray Royal Hospital is a mental-health facility in Perth, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Tayside. The original main building is a Category A listed building.
The hospital arose from a bequest by James Murray, a local man who had inherited considerable wealth after his half brother died at sea.[1] The facility, which was designed by William Burn in the neoclassical style using a corridor plan layout, opened as James Murray's Royal Lunatic Asylum in 1828.[2]
Additional wings, designed by Burn, were added in 1833 and Pitcullen House, a neighbouring property, was acquired for use as a superintendent's residence in 1849.[2] More wings, this time designed by Andrew Heiton Junior, were added in 1888 and a chapel and two flanking half-timbered villas were added in 1904.[2] The hospital joined the National Health Service as James Murray's Royal Mental 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 such a large facility was no longer necessary: a modern facility, designed by Atkins and built by Morgan Sindall and Robertson Group at a cost of £75 million on the same site, opened in June 2012.[4] The new facilities include the Rohallion Secure Care Clinic which incorporates both a low secure unit and a medium secure unit.[4]
The archives of the hospital are held by Archive Services at the University of Dundee.[1]