Warneford Hospital | |
Org/Group: | Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust |
Location: | Oxford |
Region: | Oxfordshire |
State: | England |
Country: | UK |
Healthcare: | NHS |
Type: | Teaching |
Emergency: | No |
Affiliation: | University of Oxford |
Beds: | 104 |
Founded: | 1826 |
Website: | http://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk |
Map Type: | Oxfordshire |
The Warneford Hospital is a hospital providing mental health services at Headington in east Oxford, England.[1] It is managed by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826.[2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone. The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford.[3] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843[2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877.
The hospital originally charged fees for treatment of middle-class patients with a fund eventually being set up for the care of poor patients. Men and women were originally segregated on different sides of the hospital with this practice continuing into the 1950s.[4]
Warneford Hospital was extensively mentioned in the book Dark Clouds Gather written by Katy Sara Culling about mental illness and published in 2011.[5]