Kingseat Hospital, Aberdeenshire

Kingseat Hospital
Former Administration Building at Kingseat Hospital
Shown in Aberdeenshire
Geography
Location	Kingseat, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Coordinates	57°15′45″N2°09′35″W / 57.2625°N 2.1596°W / 57.2625; -2.1596
Organisation
Care system	NHS Scotland
Type	Psychiatric hospital
Services
Emergency department	No
History
Opened	1904
Closed	1994
Links
Lists	Hospitals in Scotland

Kingseat Hospital is a former mental health facility near Newmachar in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Some of the old hospital buildings now form the central area of the village of Kingseat.

History

The hospital, which was designed by Alexander Marshall Mackenzie using a village-type layout, opened as the Aberdeen District Asylum in May 1904. ^{[1] [2]} Six additional villas were added later. ^[1] The hospital was used as a naval hospital for wounded sailors who had been serving on arctic convoys or the atlantic convoys during the Second World War and then joined the National Health Service as Kingseat Hospital in 1948. ^[1] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in April 1994. ^[1] Many of the buildings have been demolished and the site has been redeveloped by Avant Homes for residential use. ^[3]

New Zealand Kingseat

The New Zealand Kingseat Hospital was named after the Scottish one, after Theodore Gray (Director-General of the Mental Health Division of the Health Department) returned from an overseas trip and felt it appropriate to have a sister hospital with the same name in New Zealand. ^[4]

References

1. "Kingseat Hospital Ward Building (Former), Kingseat". Buildings at Risk Register for Scotland. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
2. Historic Environment Scotland. "Kingseat Hospital (Site no. NJ91NW 56)" . Retrieved 20 June 2025.
3. "Former Aberdeenshire psychiatric hospital finds new owner". Press and Journal. 21 September 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
4. Papakura, N.Z : Kingseat Jubilee Editorial Committee (1981). Kingseat Hospital, 50 years, 1932–1982 . Retrieved 5 January 2012.