Wester Moffat Hospital is a health facility in Towers Road, Airdrie,

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, Scotland. It is managed by

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. It is a Grade B

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History

The building, which was designed by Charles Wilson in the Scottish baronial style for William Towers-Clark, a solicitor, was completed in 1862. It was converted for medical use and re-opened as a sanatorium in January 1929. The facility joined the

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in 1948. Rifleman James Morris, a soldier from the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), was admitted to the hospital after a car crash in 1962 and spent 54 years there without recovering before his death in 2017.

References

1929 establishments in Scotland Hospitals established in 1929 Hospital buildings completed in 1862 NHS Scotland hospitals Hospitals in North Lanarkshire NHS Lanarkshire {{UK-hospital-stub