St Andrew's Hospital, Norwich
St Andrew's Hospital was a mental health facility in Thorpe St Andrew, Norwich, Norfolk, England. The main building survives and it is a Grade II listed building.[1]
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Geography | |
Location | Norwich, England |
Coordinates | 52.6276°N 1.3668°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Speciality | Mental health |
History | |
Opened | 1814 |
Closed | 1998 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
History
The hospital, which was designed by Francis Stone using an early corridor layout, opened as the Norfolk County Asylum in May 1814.[2] Wings to the ward blocks, designed by John Brown, were added in 1849 and a large auxiliary building for chronic patients, designed by Robinson Cornish and Gaymer, was completed in 1881.[2] The hospital was requisitioned for military use as the Norfolk War Hospital during the First World War and was then renamed the Norfolk County Mental Hospital in 1919.[2]
The hospital joined the National Health Service as St Andrew's Hospital in 1948.[3] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in April 1998.[2] The main buildings were subsequently converted into apartments as St Andrew's Park.[2]
References
- Historic England. "St Andrew's Hospital (1372707)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- "St Andrew's Hospital, Thorpe". County Asylums. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
- "St Andrew's Hospital, Norwich". National Archives. Retrieved 18 April 2019.