Warneford Hospital

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Warneford Hospital
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
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Warneford Hospital
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Geography
Location Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates 51°45′03″N1°13′21″W / 51.75083°N 1.22250°W / 51.75083; -1.22250
Organisation
Care system Public NHS
Type Teaching
Affiliated university University of Oxford
Services
Emergency department No Accident & Emergency
Beds104
History
Opened1826
Links
Website http://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
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The Warneford Hospital is a hospital providing mental health services at Headington in east Oxford, England. [1] It is managed by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. There is an active proposal to redevelop the hospital alongside a new college of the University of Oxford. [2]

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History

The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826. [3] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone. [4] The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford. [5] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843 [3] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877. [4]

The hospital originally charged fees for treatment of middle-class patients with a fund eventually being set up for the care of poor patients. Men and women were originally segregated on different sides of the hospital with this practice continuing into the 1950s. [6]

Notable staff

Notable patients

Warneford Park

In 2023, Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust announced plans to redevelop the hospital as part of a new graduate college of the University of Oxford (provisionally entitled Radcliffe College in planning documents). The planning application was submitted in August 2025. [11] A petition expressed concerns about the increase in car parking spaces. [12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Warnford Hospital". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford . Macmillan. pp. 491–492. ISBN   0-333-39917-X.
  2. ↑ "Warneford Park Development". Warneford Park.
  3. 1 2 "Warneford Hospital, Oxford". National Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  4. 1 2 Historic England. "Warneford Hospital (1245464)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  5. ↑ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Warneford, Samuel Wilson"  . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  6. ↑ "Warneford". Oxford Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  7. ↑ Stevens, Anthony (20 March 2001). "Obituary: Anthony Storr". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  8. ↑ Parkinson, Hannah Jane (11 February 2018). "Fire on All Sides and Paper Cuts review – forensic accounts of surviving child rape". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  9. ↑ Pattulio, Polly (26 October 2000). "Jennifer Dawson". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
  10. ↑ Saks, Elyn R (2007). The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness . New York: Hyperion. p. 63. ISBN   978-1-4013-0138-5.
  11. ↑ "Planning application submitted for a major mental health and medical research campus in Oxford". 23 August 2025.
  12. ↑ Network, Action. "No increase in car parking at Warneford Park!". actionnetwork.org.


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