De la Pole Hospital

De la Pole Hospital
Former staff accommodation at De la Pole Hospital
Shown in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Geography
Location	Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England
Coordinates	53°46′14″N0°26′30″W / 53.7706°N 0.4418°W / 53.7706; -0.4418
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	N/A
Speciality	Psychiatric Hospital
History
Opened	1883
Closed	1998
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

De la Pole Hospital (also known as De la Pole Psychiatric Hospital) was a mental health facility in Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

History

The hospital was located on a site previously occupied by De la Pole Farm. ^[1] It was designed by Frederick Stead Brodrick and Richard George Smith in the Victorian Gothic style, using a courtyard plan and opened as Kingston upon Hull Borough Asylum in December 1883. ^[1] It became the Willerby Mental Hospital in the 1920s before joining the National Health Service as De la Pole Hospital in 1948. ^[1]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and eventually closed in July 1998. ^[1] The main buildings have been demolished and that part of the site was redeveloped for business unit use. ^[1] The chapel survives as a Grade II listed building and is now used as part of the Haltemprice Crematorium, ^[2] opened in 1998. ^[3]

References

1. "De la Pole Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
2. Historic England. "Church At De La Pole Hospital (Block 49) (1376808)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 3 December 2012.
3. "Haltemprice Crematorium". dignityfunerals.co.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2025.