Exminster Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Exminster, Devon, England |
Coordinates | 50°40′57″N3°30′13″W / 50.6826°N 3.5035°W Coordinates: 50°40′57″N3°30′13″W / 50.6826°N 3.5035°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Emergency department | N/A |
Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1845 |
Closed | 1985 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Exminster Hospital is a former mental health facility at Exminster, Devon, England. It is a Grade II* listed building. [1]
The hospital, which was designed by Charles Fowler using a radial plan of the panopticon type, opened as the Devon County Lunatic Asylum in July 1845. [2] [3] It was used as military hospital during the First World War and then became known as Devon Mental Hospital in the 1920s. [4]
It was badly bombed during the Second World War [2] and joined the National Health Service as Exminster Hospital in 1948 before becoming known as Exe Vale Hospital (Exminster Branch) in the 1970s. [4] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1985. [2] The main building was converted into apartments between 2001 and 2008 and is now known as Devington Park. [2]
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