Tour Scotland video of Murray Royal Hospital Chapel on visit to Bridgend, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland. This Scottish hospital was founded by James Murray, a labourer who inherited a fortune in 1809 when his half-brother drowned in a storm which sank the ship carrying him home from India. It was in his own will that James Murray left two thirds of his estate for purpose of establishing an asylum in Perth. He stipulated verbally that the patients from the parishes that he had lived in, namely Perth, Dunbarney and Rhynd would be received at charitable rates, and that his brother John, and his heirs would be, when possible, represented on the management of the Asylum. He died in 1814. The hospital designed by the architect William Burn, born 1789, died 1870, and opened in 1827 as the Murray Royal Lunatic Asylum. The chapel was built in 1901, designed by Physician Superintendent Dr A.R. Urquhart it was partly built by the patients.
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