St Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

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St Nicholas Hospital
Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust
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St Nicholas Hospital
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Location Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 55°00′23″N1°38′05″W / 55.006344°N 1.634747°W / 55.006344; -1.634747
Organisation
Care system NHS England
Type Psychiatric hospital
History
Opened1864 (1864)
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Website www.ntw.nhs.uk
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St Nicholas Hospital is an NHS psychiatric hospital located in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK. The entrance is located on Jubilee Road. The buildings range from Victorian-era to modern facilities and occupy 12 hectares (30 acres) of land. [1] The hospital is managed by Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust.

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History

Early history

As Newcastle upon Tyne did not have a hospital of its own for mentally ill patients, [2] a new asylum was proposed in Coxlodge, where a 50-acre (20 ha) farmstead known as Dodd's Farm [3] was purchased. In 1864 initial plans were drawn up, and William Lambie Moffatt was appointed architect. [4] The facility opened as Newcastle upon Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum in July 1869 and became the Newcastle upon Tyne City Lunatic Asylum in 1882. [5] Some of the first patients were transferred from Bensham Asylum as Durham County Magistrates had refused to renew the contract of that facility. [6]

In 1884 permission was granted to extend the hospital, and the East and West Pavilions were completed in 1887. These allowed an additional 80 patients to be admitted. [7] The asylum steadily grew, with more buildings erected. During the First World War the patients were evacuated and the hospital became Northumberland No. 1 War Hospital for wounded soldiers, who were brought there by train. The facility reverted to an asylum in 1921. [8] In 1948 the National Health Service took over the hospital and changed the name to St Nicholas Hospital. [5]

A new admissions unit called the Collingwood Clinic was opened in 1956. [9] The site of the former Collingwood Clinic was sold in the 1990s and is now used by Virgin Money. [10] Part of the original asylum was sold in the late 1990s and converted into housing, now known as Lanesborough Court. [10]

In 1986 a church that had been located within the hospital grounds burned down. [11] The area used by the church is now occupied by the 1994-built Ashgrove Nursing Home. [11]

Recent history

Work to build an extension, the Bamburgh Clinic, on the site of a former fish factory, [12] at a cost of £22 million started in November 2004 and was completed in April 2006. [13] The new clinic is bordered by residential properties and a Northumberland Wildlife Trust wildlife centre and office. [14]

In 2009 the Greentrees unit and the Lennox Ward were renovated at a cost of circa £8 million. The renovation of these Victorian hospital buildings was one of eight projects short-listed from 20 entries for the Best Design in the Community Benefit category of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors North-East Renaissance Awards. [15]

Jubilee Theatre

The hospital also includes the Jubilee Theatre, a theatre which opened in 1899. [16] Currently the theatre is primarily used by two groups: Juniper Productions (founded 1998) a drama group for sufferers of mental health difficulties, and since 1992, an external theatre company, First Act Theatre. [16]

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