Thomas Hope Hospital | |
Org/Group: | NHS Dumfries and Galloway |
Map Type: | Scotland Dumfries and Galloway |
Coordinates: | 55.1507°N -2.9999°W |
Location: | Strand Street, Langholm |
Region: | Dumfries and Galloway |
Country: | Scotland |
Healthcare: | NHS Scotland |
Type: | General |
Founded: | 1897 |
Thomas Hope Hospital is a health facility in Strand Street, Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. It is managed by NHS Dumfries and Galloway.
The facility was financed by a large legacy from Thomas Hope, a retailing entrepreneur who had worked in the United States.[1] It was designed by John Henry Townsend Wodd in the Jacobean style and opened as the Thomas Hope Hospital for the Poor in 1897.[2] The design included an octagonal mortuary.[2] The hospital joined the National Health Service as the Thomas Hope Hospital in 1948.[3]