| LOCATION |
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| Address |
226 Fullarton Road GLENSIDE |
| Locality |
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| Accuracy |
H - high level confidence |
| Council Area |
Burnside Council |
| Polygon Type |
B - Building footprint |
| DESCRIPTION |
| Details (Known As) |
Glenside Hospital - Former Men's E1 and E2 Wards; Chapel & Erindale (former Men's E1 & E2 Wards); Glenside Hospital (former Parkside Lunatic Asylum) |
| Registered Name |
Former Men's E1 and E2 Ward - Glenside Hospital |
| Significance |
This was the first major ward building to be constructed at the Parkside Lunatic Asylum after the original main building and is important for its scale and the continuation (albeit reduced) of the decorative detailing, fireproof construction and integrated ventilation systems established by the original building. The ward and the remaining (lowered) stone sections of the former airing court walls are important reminders of the original plan of segregated pavilions intended for the whole site and of the prevailing custodial attitudes to mental health treatment in the mid to late 19th century. The building remains a rare extant example of psychiatric hospital accommodation of the Victorian era and the interior layout is a physical reminder of a now obsolescent custodial approach to the treatment of mental illness in South Australia.
Although not completed to its intended plan and utilised for much of its life as a Women's Dining room, the deliberate ecclesiastical detailing of the chapel clearly bears the hand of renowned architect E J Woods, considered one of the key practitioners of architecture in SA in the late 19th century and responsible for many of Adelaide's larger and most notable buildings. One of the earliest buildings constructed at the Parkside Lunatic Asylum, the chapel is of added interest for its cast iron trimmed gallery and slate flagged porch floor. (Condensed from Glenside Hospital Conservation Plan, 2003)
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| Subject Index |
Health - Psychiatric Hospital; Religion - Chapel |
| Class |
State |
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| STATUS |
| Status Code |
REG - Confirmed as a State Heritage Place in the SA Heritage Register |
| Status Date |
23-SEP-1982 |
| REFERENCE |
| LGA |
Burnside |
| State Heritage ID |
16188 |
| Heritage Number |
8390 |
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| SECTION 16 INFORMATION |
| Section 16 |
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| PLAN PARCEL & TITLE |
| As listed in the SA Heritage Register |
| Plan Parcel & Title Information |
CT 6147/485 D82174 A4002 |