1899 – Hospital of S.S. John & Elizabeth, St. Johns Wood, London
Architect: Edward Goldie, Goldie Child & Goldie
“This hospital,
“This hospital,
Perspective view including plans published in The Building News,
Constructed without the short clocktower. The entire workhouse complex was converted into housing in the early 1990s.
Reputed to be the most expensive capital project ever undertaken by the British Government in Ireland,
The Mater Infirmorum (Mother of the Sick) Hospital was founded by the Sisters of Mercy but has always treated patients without regard to class or creed.
Design placed second in competition to design a new hospital for Glasgow.
In 1810 a former convent became part of the Grangegorman House of Industry (workhouse) who commissioned a hospital to care for the ‘ruptured poor’.