Sheffield Royal Infirmary
Sheffield Royal Infirmary | |
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![]() The former infirmary | |
Geography | |
Location | Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England |
Coordinates | 53°23′24″N 1°29′02″W / 53.39°N 1.484°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public |
Type | General |
Affiliated university | None |
Services | |
Emergency department | No |
History | |
Opened | 1792 |
Closed | 1980 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Royal Infirmary was a hospital in Upperthorpe, Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
History
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The establishment was designed by John Rawsthorne and opened as the Sheffield General Infirmary in 1792.[1] The first three surgeons to work at the hospital were Mr. Cheney, Mr. C.H Webb and Mr. William Staniforth.[2]
A new south-east wing designed by John Dodsley Webster was completed in 1884.[1] The new wing accommodated an octagonal outpatients department which was lit by a cupola. It had a roof of wrought iron lattice girders and a tiled waiting room with the consulting rooms leading off it.[3]
A nurses' home, also designed by John Dodsley Webster and named "Centenary House", was completed in 1897,[3] the year in which the hospital was renamed The Royal Infirmary, Sheffield.[4]
The infirmary joined the National Health Service in 1948 and, after services had transferred to the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, it closed in 1980.[4] Some of the buildings were subsequently demolished, but the original block along with its south-east and south-west wings, which remains a Grade II* listed building, was renamed Heritage House and converted into offices.[1]
The empty infirmary building was used for filming a casualty scene from an imagined nuclear attack on Sheffield in the 1984 film Threads.[5]
References
- ^ a b c Historic England. "Heritage House (1270452)". National Heritage List for England.
- ^ Leader, Robert Eadon (1876). Reminiscences of Old Sheffield: Its Streets and Its People. General Books. ISBN 978-1150119125.
- ^ a b Harman, Ruth; Minnis, John (2004). "Pevsner City Guide: Sheffield". Yale University Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0300105858.
- ^ a b "Royal Infirmary, Sheffield". National Archives. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
- ^ "Nuclear fallout in Sheffield". BBC. Retrieved 22 October 2018.