DOI Heft:
No. 166 (January, 1907)
DOI Artikel:The King's Sanatorium at Midhurst and its chapel
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0327
The King's Sanatorium and its Chapel
THE KING'S SANATORIUM AT plans prepared by Mr. H. Percy Adams, F.R.LB. A.,
MIDHURST AND ITS CHAPEL. and the work was placed in his hands.
The building is of great size, the principal block
In the heart of Sussex, at a height of having a frontage of no less than 680 feet, and in
nearly 500 feet above the sea, well sheltered from addition to this are separate buildings, such as
the north and east, and commanding sweeping cottages, laundry, and chapel. The main building
views of the South Downs, stands the Sanatorium contains the administrative portion and the
built at the express desire of, and recently opened accommodation for patients, who are divided
by, King Edward VII. His Majesty's wish to into two categories, of which one pays a somewhat
alleviate, with the best aid that modern thought higher fee than the other. Without a plan, which
and science could afford, the suffering caused by it would be impossible to give on any such scale as
consumption—that Plague of our days—was made would set forth and do justice to its arrangements,
fruitful, in the first place, by the large generosity of it is hopeless to attempt to make these plain. It
an anonymous benefactor, and, in the second, by must suffice to say that the administration block
the appointment of a strong and extremely able and its arrangements have been thought out with
advisory committee. With the object of eliciting great detail, and that it contains the usual waiting
the best views and suggestions from the stand- room, consulting room, room for X-ray work and
point of the medical man, the committee advised photography, operating room, and a common room,
His Majesty to institute a competition for the best which possesses a full-size billiard table, for the
essays on the construction and working of a medical staff. Besides this, the large dining-hall
sanatorium with 100 beds. These were accom- is placed in this portion of the building, with
panied by plans which, as a rule, were the result of serving room and kitchen premises, the latter
a quasi-partnership between a medical man and an including an ice-making room. The walls of the
architect. Eventually the first prize of ^500 was whole of the kitchen department are faced with
awarded to an essay which was accompanied by white glazed tiles, and the floors are also of tiles,
THE KING'S SANATORIUM, MIDHURST :
MAIN ENTRANCE
H. PERCY ADAMS, ARCHITECT
307
THE KING'S SANATORIUM AT plans prepared by Mr. H. Percy Adams, F.R.LB. A.,
MIDHURST AND ITS CHAPEL. and the work was placed in his hands.
The building is of great size, the principal block
In the heart of Sussex, at a height of having a frontage of no less than 680 feet, and in
nearly 500 feet above the sea, well sheltered from addition to this are separate buildings, such as
the north and east, and commanding sweeping cottages, laundry, and chapel. The main building
views of the South Downs, stands the Sanatorium contains the administrative portion and the
built at the express desire of, and recently opened accommodation for patients, who are divided
by, King Edward VII. His Majesty's wish to into two categories, of which one pays a somewhat
alleviate, with the best aid that modern thought higher fee than the other. Without a plan, which
and science could afford, the suffering caused by it would be impossible to give on any such scale as
consumption—that Plague of our days—was made would set forth and do justice to its arrangements,
fruitful, in the first place, by the large generosity of it is hopeless to attempt to make these plain. It
an anonymous benefactor, and, in the second, by must suffice to say that the administration block
the appointment of a strong and extremely able and its arrangements have been thought out with
advisory committee. With the object of eliciting great detail, and that it contains the usual waiting
the best views and suggestions from the stand- room, consulting room, room for X-ray work and
point of the medical man, the committee advised photography, operating room, and a common room,
His Majesty to institute a competition for the best which possesses a full-size billiard table, for the
essays on the construction and working of a medical staff. Besides this, the large dining-hall
sanatorium with 100 beds. These were accom- is placed in this portion of the building, with
panied by plans which, as a rule, were the result of serving room and kitchen premises, the latter
a quasi-partnership between a medical man and an including an ice-making room. The walls of the
architect. Eventually the first prize of ^500 was whole of the kitchen department are faced with
awarded to an essay which was accompanied by white glazed tiles, and the floors are also of tiles,
THE KING'S SANATORIUM, MIDHURST :
MAIN ENTRANCE
H. PERCY ADAMS, ARCHITECT
307