King James VI Hospital

King James VI Hospital is an historic building in Perth, Scotland.

[3] An H-shaped building, four storeys high, it is finished in greywash harled rubble "with raised ashlar margins and quoins at angles".

[1] The central block is topped by an octagonal belfry believed to have been taken from Nairne House, in Bankfoot, which was demolished in 1748 after being forfeited during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.

[4][5] The building was funded by royal endowment and public subscription, and it served several functions, including being an almshouse, an industrial school and an infirmary, as well as being a reformatory for delinquents.

[1] In 1814, most of the building was rented out for other uses, and in 1838, a separate infirmary was built 500 feet to the west, on York Place (now occupied by A. K. Bell Library).