1886 – Nurses Home, St. Marylebone Infirmary, London

Opened by Princess Christian, daughter of Queen Victoria. Florence Nightingale established a Training School for Nurses at the Infirmary, one of the first in a poor law establishment. Perspective view with plan published in The Building News, March 5th 1885. It was built in yellow stock brick in ‘Guardian’s Gothic’ style with minimal use of stone dressings and a slate roof. Four double pavilions were arranged symmetrically on a north-south axis with two each side of the centre range. In 1922, the infirmary was renamed St. Marylebone Hospital; in 1930 it was taken over by the London County Council and became St. Charles’ Hospital, transferring to the National Health Service in 1948. Around 2012 it was renamed the St. Charles Centre for Health and Wellbeing. The buildings, including the nurses’ home, are Grade II listed.

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