Littlemore Hospital

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Littlemore Hospital
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Littlemore Hospital
Littlemore Hospital
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Geography
Location Littlemore, Oxfordshire, England
Coordinates 51°43′05″N1°13′36″W / 51.7180°N 1.2268°W / 51.7180; -1.2268 Coordinates: 51°43′05″N1°13′36″W / 51.7180°N 1.2268°W / 51.7180; -1.2268
Organisation
Care system NHS
Type Specialist
Services
Emergency department N/A
Speciality Psychiatric Hospital
History
Opened1846
Closed1998
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Littlemore Hospital was a mental health facility on Sandford Road in Littlemore, Oxfordshire.

History

The hospital, which was designed by Robert Clarke using a Corridor Plan layout, opened as the Oxford County Pauper Lunatic Asylum in August 1846. [1] [2] The ward spurs were extended to a design by Henry Jones Underwood in 1847. [1]

Littlemore railway station was opened, giving improved access to the hospital, in 1864, and two additional pavilion blocks connected by a recreation hall were completed to a design by Edwin Dolby and Henry Tollit in 1902. [1] [3] During the last few months of the First World War the hospital served as the Ashurst Military hospital and it was then renamed Littlemore Hospital in 1922. [1]

After some of the pavilions saw service with the Emergency Hospital Service during the Second World War, the whole facility joined the National Health Service in 1948. [1] Dr Bertram Mandelbrote, who carried out pioneering work on creating therapeutic communities, became superintendent at the hospital in 1959. [4]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1998. [1] [5] The main hospital building was converted into apartments as St. George's Park. [1] Some of the rear blocks were acquired by Yamanouchi (now Astellas Pharma) for use as a research facility [6] but then sold on, in 2008, to the SAE Institute for use as a training establishment. [7] Meanwhile, a modern mental health facility known as the Littlemore Mental Health Centre, [8] which includes the Ashurst Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Phoenix Ward (Adult Male in-patient), have been established on the opposite side of Sandford Road. [9]

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References

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