Horton Road Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England |
Coordinates | 51°51′55″N 2°13′42″W / 51.8653°N 2.2284°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Emergency department | N/A |
Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1823 |
Closed | 1988 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Horton Road Hospital was a mental health facility in Horton Road, Gloucester, England.
The hospital, which was designed by William Stark (who died before the hospital was fully designed), [1] John Wheeler (who also died before the hospital was fully designed) and John Collingwood using a radial plan layout, opened as the First Gloucestershire County Asylum in July 1823. [2] [3] The west wing was extended in 1846. [2]
The facility joined the National Health Service as the Horton Road Hospital in 1948. [2] In the early 1970s the Horton Road Hospital released land on the west of its site to facilitate the construction of the Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. [2] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in March 1988. [2] The main building was converted to apartments in 2005. [2]