Lancaster Moor Hospital
Lancaster Moor Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Lancaster, Lancashire, England |
Coordinates | 54°02′56″N 2°46′19″W / 54.049°N 2.772°W |
Organisation | |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Speciality | Psychiatry |
History | |
Opened | 1816 |
Closed | 2000 |
Listed Building – Grade II* | |
Official name | Moor Hospital, Blocks 40, 41, 42, 44 and 46 |
Designated | 24 January 1994 |
Reference no. | 1289436 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Moor Hospital, New Block |
Designated | 24 January 1994 |
Reference no. | 1195079 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Boundary walls, railings, gates and gate piers at Lancaster Moor Hospital |
Designated | 13 September 2006 |
Reference no. | 1391761 |
Lancaster Moor Hospital, formerly the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum and Lancaster County Mental Hospital, was a mental hospital in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, which closed in 2000 (the mental health departments may have left in 1991, but others remained).
History
The main building, which was designed by Thomas Standen, was opened as the First Lancashire County Asylum in 1816.[1] A further building, which was designed by Arnold W. Kershaw in the gothic style and known as "the Annexe", was completed in 1883 and is grade II listed[2] as are its walls, railings, and gateways.[3] The hospital's chapel, which was designed by Edward Graham Paley, was built in 1866 and is grade II listed.[4]
The hospital was a pioneering site for the humane treatment of the mentally ill.[5] The writer Alan Bennett describes his mother's treatment in the hospital in his memoirs.[5]
Since the hospital's closure in 2000, the Annexe and chapel have been converted into apartments, and houses are being built in the grounds.[6][7]
See also
- Grade II* listed buildings in Lancashire
- Listed buildings in Lancaster, Lancashire
- Prestwich Hospital, the second Lancashire County Asylum
- Rainhill Hospital, the third Lancashire County Asylum
- Whittingham Hospital, the fourth Lancashire County Asylum
References
- ^ Lewis, Samuel (1848). "'Lambley - Lancaster', in A Topographical Dictionary of England". London: British History Online. pp. 6–17. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
- ^ Historic England. "Moor Hospital, New Block (1195079)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ^ Historic England. "Boundary walls, railings, gates and gate piers at Lancaster Moor Hospital (1391761)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ^ Historic England. "Church of St Michael, Moor Hospital (1289454)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ^ a b Woodend, Joscelin (18 December 2013). "The Evolution of the Treatment of the Mentally Ill: How Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum Changed the Face of Treatment". New Histories The free online History magazine. 5 (2). Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ^ Riley, Sue (5 February 2013). "Lancaster's Moor Hospital to be transformed in multi-million pound housing property development". Lancashire Life. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ^ Law, Cally (4 May 2014). "Asylum seekers". Sunday Times. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
External links
- "Lancaster Moor Hospital, Lancaster". Hospital Records Database. The National Archives. Retrieved 2 July 2014. Index of locations of records of the hospital
- Williams, Amanda (7 August 2013). "Forgotten medical records, theatre lights and abandoned wards: An eerie look inside what remains of a derelict 19th century hospital". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2 July 2014. Photographs of the hospital buildings in 2013
- Hospital buildings completed in 1816
- Hospital buildings completed in 1883
- Former psychiatric hospitals in England
- Hospitals established in 1816
- Hospitals disestablished in 2000
- Defunct hospitals in England
- Hospitals in Lancashire
- Buildings and structures in Lancaster, Lancashire
- Grade II* listed buildings in Lancashire
- Grade II* listed hospital buildings
- Grade II listed buildings in Lancashire
- History of mental health in the United Kingdom
- Grade II listed hospital buildings
- 1816 establishments in England