St Luke's Hospital, Rugby

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The former workhouse boardroom, the only surviving building of the former workhouse and hospital.
St Luke's Hospital, Rugby
Geography
LocationLower Hillmorton Road,
Rugby,
Warwickshire,
England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 52°22′13″N1°15′06″W / 52.370297°N 1.251532°W / 52.370297; -1.251532
Organisation
Care system National Health Service
History
Opened1948
Closed1993
Links
Lists Hospitals in the United Kingdom

St Luke's Hospital was a former hospital in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, on Lower Hillmorton Road, between 1948 and 1993, although the facility had its origins in 1819 as a workhouse.

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History

The site originated as the Rugby Union Workhouse, which was opened just off Lower Hillmorton Road in 1819. The institution was enlarged gradually over the years, until 1930, when it became a local-authority-run Public Assistance Institution for caring for the elderly, infirm and chronically sick. During the Second World War it was used as a hospital under the Emergency Hospital Service. From 1948 the site was taken over by the newly-established National Health Service (NHS) and named St Luke's Hospital. [1]

St Luke's primarily functioned as an infirmary, though a nurses' training school opened there in 1951, and child development services were moved there in 1982. In the early 1990s the decision was taken to close St Luke's and move its services to nearby St Cross Hospital, which was enlarged at the same time. By April 1993 all of the patients had been transferred, and St Luke's was closed. [2]

In 1994 the site was sold to housing developers, who demolished most of the buildings for a new housing development called Morton Gardens. Only the former workhouse boardroom remains. The site of the hospital is now covered by housing, a general practice surgery, and an NHS clinic called the Orchard Centre. [2] [3]

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References

  1. "Rugby, Warwickshire". workhouses.org. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  2. 1 2 "St. Luke's Hospital, 1948 - 1993 and after". Rugby Local History Research Group. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  3. "Hospital of St Lukes, Rugby". Our Warwickshire. Retrieved 12 December 2023.

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