St George's Hospital, Morpeth

The facility was designed by Henry Welch, the County Surveyor of Northumberland, using a corridor plan layout and opened as the Northumberland County Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 16 March 1859.[1] It was extended in the 1880s and three villas were added in the 1890s, before it was renamed St George's Hospital in the 1930s.[1] A German Luftwaffe bomber crash landed in the hospital grounds in 1942 during the Second World War[2] and the hospital joined the National Health Service 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 2006.[1] Many of the old buildings have been demolished and the site has been developed for residential use as "Saint George".[4]

Meanwhile, a small modern health facility, which was named St George's Park was built slightly to the north of the old hospital.[1]