Parc Hospital

Parc Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Parc) was a mental health facility at Bridgend in Wales.

Parc Hospital
Clocktower from Parc Hospital
Shown in Bridgend County Borough
Geography
LocationBridgend, Wales
Coordinates51.5320°N 3.5646°W / 51.5320; -3.5646
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeSpecialist
Services
SpecialityMental health
History
Opened1886
Closed1996
Links
ListsHospitals in Wales

History

Parc Gwyllt Farm and Gelliau Farm were identified in 1880 as forming a site suitable for the purposes of building an asylum.[1] The hospital, which was designed by Giles, Gough and Trollope using a compact arrow layout, opened as the Second Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum in 1886.[2] It became Parc Gwyllt County Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as Parc Hospital 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 1996.[2] The hospital was subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped as Parc Prison in 1997.[3] The old clocktower from Park Hospital has been restored and remains visible to the public on the Parc Prison site.[4]

References
  1. "Parc Gwyllt Asylum: Timeline". Hello Historia. 9 July 2012. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  2. "Parc Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  3. "Parc Prison; HMP Parc; Parc Gwyllt County Mental Hospital". Coflein. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
  4. "Parc Prison set for an expansion?". Bridgend Today. 8 April 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2019.

Further reading
  • Saunders, Mark (1993). Parc Hospital: the Last Days. Valley and Vale. ISBN 978-0951483145.
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