St George's Hospital was a mental health facility in Morpeth, Northumberland.
| St George's Hospital | |
|---|---|
.jpg) St George's Hospital | |
  Shown in Northumberland | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Morpeth, Northumberland, England |
| Coordinates | 55°10′34″N 1°41′02″W / 55.1762°N 1.6838°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Speciality | Mental health |
| History | |
| Opened | 1859 |
| Closed | 2006 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
History
editThe 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]
References
edit- ^ a b c d "St George's Hospital, Morpeth". County Asylums. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "Morpeth hospital's fascinating history". Morpeth Herald. 18 August 2006. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "St George's Hospital, Morpeth". National Archives. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
- ^ "Work starts on £90m transformation of derelict St George's Hospital in Morpeth". Chronicle Live. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2019.