1863 – Borough Hospital, Birkenhead, Cheshire
“The design is in the Italian style of architecture.
“The design is in the Italian style of architecture.
Construction of the current hospital on its new site in Great George Street started in 1863 to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott.
Craig Dunain Hospital was the only hospital for psychiatric illness in the Highlands,
King’s was originally opened in 1840 in the disused St Clements Dane workhouse in Portugal Street close to Lincoln’s Inn Fields.
Now part of the University Hospital of North Staffordshire,
Now known as the Downshire Hospital.
From The Architect and Contract Reporter, November 27 1869: The Magdalen Hospital is the oldest institution of its kind,
From The Builder, April 2, 1870: THE subject of the accompanying illustration is the newly erected asylum for the reception of the insane poor of the county of Berks and boroughs of Reading and Newbury.
Front Elevation & Plan with key published in The Building News,
Image published in The Building News,