The Horton Road Hospital was a mental health facility in Horton Road, Gloucester, England.
| Horton Road Hospital | |
|---|---|
.jpg) Horton Road Hospital | |
  Shown in Gloucestershire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England |
| Coordinates | 51°51′55″N 2°13′42″W / 51.8653°N 2.2284°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | N/A |
| Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1823 |
| Closed | 1988 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
History
editThe hospital, which was designed by William Stark (who died before the hospital was fully designed),[1] John Wheeler (who also died before the hospital was fully designed) and John Collingwood using a radial plan layout, opened as the First Gloucestershire County Asylum in July 1823.[2][3] The west wing was extended in 1846.[2]
The facility joined the National Health Service as the Horton Road Hospital in 1948.[2] In the early 1970s the Horton Road Hospital released land on the west of its site to facilitate the construction of the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.[2] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in March 1988.[2] The main building was converted to apartments in 2005.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Gloucester Asylum". Scottish Architects. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f "Horton Road". County Asylums. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ^ "Horton Road Hospital, Gloucester". National Archives. Retrieved 14 April 2019.