Mapperley Hospital Explained

Mapperley Hospital
Location:Mapperley
Region:Nottinghamshire
Country:England
Coordinates:52.9799°N -1.1276°W
Healthcare:NHS
Type:Specialist
Speciality:Psychiatric Hospital
Emergency:N/A
Founded:1880
Closed:1994
Map Type:Nottinghamshire

Mapperley Hospital was a mental health facility on Porchester Road in Nottingham, England.

History

The hospital, which was designed by George Thomas Hine using a linear corridor layout, opened as the Nottingham Borough Lunatic Asylum in August 1880.[1] [2] It was extended in 1889 and joined the National Health Service as Mapperley Hospital in 1948.[1]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in December 1994.[1]

Today, most of the original buildings still remain, but have been repurposed. The north end of the campus has been renamed "Duncan Macmillan House" and is now used as the headquarters of the Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust[3] while the south end of the campus has been renamed "Nightingale House" and has been converted into privately owned apartments.[4] Meanwhile, a modern mental health facility, known as the Wells Road Centre, has been established to the west of the site and provides low secure in-patient services.[5]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mapperley Hospital. County Asylums. 15 April 2019.
  2. T. Fry, 'Mapperley Hospital: The Beginning and the End' in Nottingham Civic Society Newsletter, 97, pp. 21-22
  3. Web site: Contact us. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. 15 April 2019.
  4. Web site: The Chapel and theatre at Mapperley Hospital, Porchester Road. Nottingham City Council. 19 March 2014. 15 April 2019.
  5. Web site: The Wells Road Centre. Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. 15 April 2019.