Cherry Knowle Hospital

Cherry Knowle Hospital was a mental health facility in Ryhope, Tyne and Wear, England. It was managed by the South of Tyne and Wearside Mental Health NHS Trust.

Cherry Knowle Hospital
South of Tyne and Wearside Mental Health NHS Trust
Cherry Knowle Hospital
Shown in Tyne and Wear
Geography
LocationRyhope, Tyne and Wear, England
Coordinates54.8603°N 1.3732°W / 54.8603; -1.3732
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeSpecialist
Services
Emergency departmentN/A
SpecialityPsychiatric Hospital
History
Opened1895
Closed1998
Links
ListsHospitals in England

History

The hospital was designed by George Thomas Hine using a Compact Arrow layout and construction began in 1893.[1] It was opened as the Sunderland Borough Asylum in 1895.[2] A villa block was added in 1902. Further development took place in the 1930s when an admissions hospital and convalescent villas were built.[1]

During the Second World War emergency medical service huts were established on the site: these were later developed to create Ryhope General hospital.[3]

The asylum joined the National Health Service as Cherry Knowle Hospital in 1948.[4] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1998.[2] The buildings were largely demolished in 2011[5] and the site is being redeveloped for residential use.[6]

The Hopewood Park mental health campus opened on the site in 2014. [7]

References
  1. Henderson, Tony (January 27, 2015). "Exhibition will mark history of Wearside mental care hospital Cherry Knowle". nechronicle.
  2. "Cherry Knowle Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  3. "Sunderland hospital's 120 years of mental health care". Sunderland Echo. 11 February 2015. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  4. "Cherry Knowle Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  5. "Derelict buildings at Sunderland hospital demolished". BBC. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  6. "Sunderland scheme could support 1300 jobs". Insider Media. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  7. "£50m patient-centred mental health unit opens in Sunderland". Building Better Healthcare. 2014.
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