Lancaster Moor Hospital

Lancaster Moor Hospital
The 1816 building in 2008
Location in Lancaster
Geography
Location Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Coordinates 54°02′56″N 2°46′19″W / 54.049°N 2.772°W / 54.049; -2.772Coordinates: 54°02′56″N 2°46′19″W / 54.049°N 2.772°W / 54.049; -2.772
Organisation
Hospital type Specialist
Services
Speciality Psychiatry
History
Founded 1816
Closed 2000
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name Moor Hospital, Blocks 40, 41, 42, 44 and 46
Designated 24 January 1994
Reference no. 1289436
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name Moor Hospital, New Block
Designated 24 January 1994
Reference no. 1195079
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name Boundary walls, railings, gates and gate piers at Lancaster Moor Hospital
Designated 13 September 2006
Reference no. 1391761

Lancaster Moor Hospital, formerly the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum and Lancaster County Mental Hospital, was a mental hospital in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, which closed in 2000 (the mental health departments may have left in 1991, but others remained).

History

The 1883 building in 2010

The main building, which was designed by Thomas Standen, was opened as the First Lancashire County Asylum in 1816.[1] A further building, which was designed by Arnold W. Kershaw in the gothic style and known as "the Annexe", was completed in 1883 and is grade II listed[2] as are its walls, railings, and gateways.[3] The hospital's chapel, which was designed by Edward Graham Paley, was built in 1866 and is grade II listed.[4]

The hospital was a pioneering site for the humane treatment of the mentally ill.[5] The writer Alan Bennett describes his mother's treatment in the hospital in his memoirs.[5]

Since the hospital's closure in 2000, the Annexe and chapel have been converted into apartments, and houses are being built in the grounds.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Lewis, Samuel (1848). "'Lambley - Lancaster', in A Topographical Dictionary of England". London: British History Online. pp. 6–17. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  2. ↑ Historic England. "Moor Hospital, New Block (1195079)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  3. ↑ Historic England. "Boundary walls, railings, gates and gate piers at Lancaster Moor Hospital (1391761)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Church of St Michael, Moor Hospital (1289454)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  5. 1 2 Woodend, Joscelin (18 December 2013). "The Evolution of the Treatment of the Mentally Ill: How Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum Changed the Face of Treatment". New Histories The free online History magazine. 5 (2). Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  6. ↑ Riley, Sue (5 February 2013). "Lancaster's Moor Hospital to be transformed in multi-million pound housing property development". Lancashire Life. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  7. ↑ Law, Cally (4 May 2014). "Asylum seekers". Sunday Times. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
  • "Lancaster Moor Hospital, Lancaster". Hospital Records Database. The National Archives. Retrieved 2 July 2014. Index of locations of records of the hospital
  • Williams, Amanda (7 August 2013). "Forgotten medical records, theatre lights and abandoned wards: An eerie look inside what remains of a derelict 19th century hospital". Daily Mail. Retrieved 2 July 2014. Photographs of the hospital buildings in 2013
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