Carlton Hayes Hospital

Carlton Hayes Hospital, Narborough, Leicestershire was the psychiatric hospital of Leicestershire from 1907 to 1995.[1]

Carlton Hayes Hospital
Carlton Hayes Hospital
Shown in Leicestershire
Geography
LocationNarborough, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates
Organisation
Care systemPublic NHS
TypePublic
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
History
Opened1907
Closed1995
Links
ListsHospitals in England

History

The complex was built to the designs of Samuel Perkins Pick (1858-1919),[2] a well-known Leicester architect, in the Art Nouveau style as the Leicestershire County Asylum and was officially opened on 1 October 1907.[3] It became known as the Leicestershire and Rutland Mental Hospital in 1914.[3]

Significant extensions designed by William Keay were completed in the 1930s.[4] It became Carlton Hayes Hospital in 1939 and joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3] Philip Larkin's mother was a patient in the hospital in 1956: he described it as "large and dingy as a London terminus".[5]

The complex was demolished after 1996, and the site redeveloped by the Alliance & Leicester Building Society for their new headquarters.[6]

References
  1. Nursing Times, Nursing Mirror 1991 - Volume 87, Issues 18-22 - Page 101 "As part of our strategic objective of developing Leicestershire's mental health services, in 1995 we will be transferring the Acute Psychiatric Wards from Carlton Hayes and the Towers Hospital to a 120 bedded Unit with day hospital and ..."
  2. "Samuel Perkins Pick FRIBA 1905-06". Leicester Lit and Phil Society. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  3. "Records of Carlton Hayes Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  4. "Pick, Everard, Keay & Gimson, civil engineers". The National Archives. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  5. Kynaston, David (2009). Family Britain 1951-7. London: Bloomsbury. p. 628. ISBN 9780747583851.
  6. "175 Years in the Making". Carlton Hayes. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
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