St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath | |
Location: | Bracebridge Heath |
Region: | Lincolnshire |
Country: | England |
Coordinates: | 53.1975°N -0.5326°W |
Healthcare: | National Health Service |
Funding: | Public |
Type: | Mental health |
Founded: | 1852 |
Closed: | 1989 |
Map Type: | Lincolnshire |
St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath was a mental health facility at Bracebridge Heath in Lincolnshire.
The hospital was designed by John Hamilton and James Medland in the Italianate style[1] as the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum and opened in 1852.[2] It became Bracebridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum in 1898 and Bracebridge Mental Hospital in 1919.[2] It served as an Emergency Hospital during the Second World War and, having been renamed Bracebridge Heath Hospital in 1939, joined the National Health Service in 1948.[2] It went on to become St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath in 1961.[2]
The hospital closed in December 1989 and the site has been sold to a property developer who has built 183 luxury homes and apartments there.[3] The original hospital buildings are classified as Grade II listed buildings.