| St George's Hospital | |
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 St George's Hospital | |
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  Shown in Northumberland | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Morpeth, Northumberland, England |
| Coordinates | 55°10′34″N1°41′02″W / 55.1762°N 1.6838°W Coordinates: 55°10′34″N1°41′02″W / 55.1762°N 1.6838°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Speciality | Mental health |
| History | |
| Opened | 1859 |
| Closed | 2006 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
St George's Hospital was a mental health facility in Morpeth, Northumberland.
The facility was designed by Henry Welch, the County Surveyor of Northumberland, using a corridor plan layout and opened as the Northumberland County Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 16 March 1859. [1] It was extended in the 1880s and three villas were added in the 1890s, before it was renamed St George's Hospital in the 1930s. [1] A German Luftwaffe bomber crash landed in the hospital grounds in 1942 during the Second World War [2] and the hospital joined the National Health Service 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 2006. [1] Many of the old buildings have been demolished and the site has been developed for residential use as "Saint George". [4]
Meanwhile, a small modern health facility, which was named St George's Park was built slightly to the north of the old hospital. [1]
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