Editing Craiglockhart Hydropathic

{{Short description|Hospital and later university building in Edinburgh, Scotland}}
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'''Craiglockhart Hydropathic''', now a part of [[Edinburgh Napier University]] and known as '''Craiglockhart Campus''',  is a building with surrounding grounds in [[Craiglockhart]], [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]]. As part of a large extension programme by the university in the early 2000s the original building and surrounding campus underwent significant restoration and modernisation; as a result, many of the original interior features of the building are no longer visible. The exterior of the building has been preserved.  
[[File:Craiglockhart Hydropathic main view.JPG|right|thumb|Main front showing the scale of the Hydropathic]]
[[File:Craiglockhart Hydropathic old and new buildings.JPG|right|thumb|View of the side of the campus showing the original Hydropathic building and the newly built Business School.]]

==Origins==
The estate in which the Hydropathic's building lies was sold in 1773 to [[Alexander Monro (secundus)|Alexander Monro]], who was second of three generations to be Professor of [[Anatomy]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. It stayed in the Monro family for more than a hundred years.

==The Hydropathic and the War Hospital==
In 1877, the estate became the property of the Craiglockhart Hydropathic Company, who set about building a [[Hydropathic establishment|hydropathic institute]].<ref name="BradleyDupreeDurie429">{{Cite journal| last=Bradley| first=James| last2=Dupree| first2= Mageurite|last3=Durie|first3=Alastair | title=Taking the Water Cure: The Hydropathic Movement in Scotland, 1840-1940|journal=Business and Economic History|volume=26|issue=2|page=429
|year=1997| url= http://www.h-net.org/~business/bhcweb/publications/BEHprint/v026n2/p0426-p0437.pdf|accessdate=2009-11-17}}</ref><ref name="Shifrin">{{cite web| last=Shifrin| first=Malcolm | title=Victorian Turkish Baths Directory |work=Victorian Turkish Baths: Their origin, development, and gradual decline |date= 3 October 2008| url=http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/6DIRECTORY/ListBodies/HydroSF.htm |accessdate=12 December 2009}}</ref> The Hydropathic was built in the Italian style by Architects Peddie & Kinnear.<ref>{{cite book|first1=John|last1=Gifford|first2=Colin|last2=McWilliam|first3=David|last3=Walker|title=The Buildings of Scotland. Edinburgh|date=1984|place=Harmondswort, Middlesex|publisher=Penguin Books Ltd}}</ref>  Craiglockhart remained as a hydropathic, until the advent of the [[World War I|First World War]].<ref name="BradleyDupreeDurie429"/><ref name="Shifrin"/> Between 1916 and 1919 the building was used as a military [[psychiatry|psychiatric]] hospital for the treatment of [[shell shock|shell-shocked]] officers.

Probably the most famous patients of Craiglockhart were the poets [[Siegfried Sassoon]] and [[Wilfred Owen]], whose poems appeared in the hospital's own magazine called ''[[The Hydra]]''. [[Wilfred Owen]] was the editor of the magazine during his stay.  Siegfried Sassoon was sent to Craiglockhart, as a response to his "Soldier's Declaration", an anti-war letter.  He later wrote about his experiences at the hospital in his semi-autobiographical novel, ''[[Sherston's Progress]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sites.scran.ac.uk/Warp/siegfried_sassoon.htm |website=The War Poets at Craiglockhart |title=The War Poets - Siegfried Sassoon |date= |accessdate=2013-04-05}}</ref> There is now an area within the building that celebrates the life and work of both [[Siegfried Sassoon|Sassoon]] and [[Wilfred Owen|Owen]] and their meeting at Craiglockhart.

The best known of the doctors assigned there was [[W. H. R. Rivers]].  The Hospital featured in the 1991 book ''[[Regeneration (novel)|Regeneration]]'' by [[Pat Barker]], and the [[Regeneration (1997 film)|1997 film adaptation]] by the same name, in which the institution was known as '''Craiglockhart War Hospital'''.

==Later uses==
The building then became a convent for the [[Society of the Sacred Heart]], before serving as a [[Catholic]] teacher training college.<ref>{{cite web|website=Irish Archives Resource|title=Society of the Sacred Heart Provincial Archives|url=https://www.iar.ie/Archive.shtml?IE%20SSHI-S/CRT|access-date=2019-09-03}}</ref> It then passed to the then Napier College, and was used by that institution and its successor, Napier Polytechnic; thus it is now part of Edinburgh Napier University. Much of the old building has been retained, and an extensive new wing has been built behind it to house the Business School.

==See also==
* [[Alexander Monro (tertius)|Alexander Monro ''tertius'']]
* ''[[Regeneration (1997 film)]]'' - set, but not filmed, here.

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==External links==
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