Pastures Hospital

Pastures Hospital
Pastures Hospital
	Pastures Hospital
	Shown in Derbyshire
Geography
Location	Mickleover, England
Coordinates	52°53′40″N1°33′35″W / 52.8945°N 1.5598°W Coordinates: 52°53′40″N1°33′35″W / 52.8945°N 1.5598°W
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Hospital type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Mental health
History
Founded	1851
Closed	1994
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

Last updated April 19, 2019

Pastures Hospital was a mental health facility at Mickleover in Derbyshire, England. The church is a Grade II listed building.^[1]

Mickleover is the most westerly suburb of the city of Derby in the United Kingdom. It is located 2 miles (3.2 km) west of the city centre.

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire, containing the southern extremity of the Pennine range of hills which extend into the north of the county. The county contains part of the National Forest, and borders on Greater Manchester to the northwest, West Yorkshire to the north, South Yorkshire to the northeast, Nottinghamshire to the east, Leicestershire to the southeast, Staffordshire to the west and southwest and Cheshire also to the west. Kinder Scout, at 636 metres (2,087 ft), is the highest point in the county, whilst Trent Meadows, where the River Trent leaves Derbyshire, is its lowest point at 27 metres (89 ft). The River Derwent is the county's longest river at 66 miles (106 km), and runs roughly north to south through the county. In 2003 the Ordnance Survey placed Church Flatts Farm at Coton in the Elms as the furthest point from the sea in Great Britain.

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

History

The hospital, which was designed by Henry Duesbury in the Jacobean style using a corridor layout, opened in August 1851.^[2] The chapel was completed in 1869 and additional wards were created in 1895 and in 1905.^[2] It became Derbyshire County Mental Hospital in 1918 and joined the National Health Service as Pastures Hospital in 1948.^[3]

Henry Duesbury was the Borough Architect for Derby from 1841 to about 1854. He designed Derby's Guild Hall, the Arboretum Square entrance and orangery, and the so-called Crystal Palace at the Derby Arboretum.

The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style. It is named after King James I of England, with whose reign it is associated. At the start of James' reign there was little stylistic break in architecture, as Elizabethan trends continued their development. However his death in 1625 came as a decisive change towards more classical architecture, with Italian influence, was in progress, led by Inigo Jones; the style this began is sometimes called Stuart architecture, or English Baroque.

The NHS in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and the affiliated Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland were established together in 1948 as one of the major social reforms following the Second World War. The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, apart from dental treatment and optical care. The English NHS also requires patients to pay prescription charges with a range of exemptions from these charges.

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1994.^[2] The main administration block was subsequently converted into apartments as Duesbury Court.^[2]

Care in the Community is the British policy of deinstitutionalization, treating and caring for physically and mentally disabled people in their homes rather than in an institution. Institutional care was the target of widespread criticism during the 1960s and 1970s, but it was not until 1983 that the government of Margaret Thatcher adopted a new policy of care after the Audit Commission published a report called 'Making a Reality of Community Care' which outlined the advantages of domiciled care.

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References

↑ Historic England. "Church at Pastures Hospital (1334530)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 18 April 2019.
1 2 3 4 "Pastures Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
↑ "Pastures Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

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[1] Historic England. "Church at Pastures Hospital (1334530)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 18 April 2019.

[county-2] 1 2 3 4 "Pastures Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 18 April 2019.

[3] "Pastures Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 18 April 2019.