| St George's Hospital | |
| Map Type: | Northumberland |
| Coordinates: | 55.1762°N -1.6838°W |
| Location: | Morpeth |
| Region: | Northumberland |
| Country: | England |
| Healthcare: | NHS |
| Type: | Specialist |
| Speciality: | Mental health |
| Founded: | 1859 |
| Closed: | 2006 |
St George's Hospital was a mental health facility in Morpeth, Northumberland.
The facility was designed by Henry Welch, the County Surveyor of Northumberland, using a corridor plan layout and opened as the Northumberland County Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 16 March 1859.[1] It was extended in the 1880s and three villas were added in the 1890s, before it was renamed St George's Hospital in the 1930s.[1] A German Luftwaffe bomber crash landed in the hospital grounds in 1942 during the Second World War[2] and the hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2006.[1] Many of the old buildings have been demolished and the site has been developed for residential use as "Saint George".[4]
Meanwhile, a small modern health facility, which was named St George's Park was built slightly to the north of the old hospital.[1]