Warneford Hospital

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.

For the hospital in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, see Warneford Hospital, Leamington Spa.

Warneford Hospital
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Warneford Hospital
Shown in Oxfordshire
Geography
LocationOxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates51°45′03″N 1°13′21″W
Organisation
Care systemPublic NHS
TypeTeaching
Affiliated universityUniversity of Oxford
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
Beds104
History
Opened1826
Links
Websitehttp://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
ListsHospitals in England

History

The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826.[2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone.[3] The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford.[4] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843[2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877.[3]

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.[5]

Warneford Hospital was extensively mentioned in the book Dark Clouds Gather written by Katy Sara Culling about mental illness and published in 2011.[6]

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 Hospital, Oxford". National Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  3. Historic England. "Warneford Hospital (1245464)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  4. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Warneford, Samuel Wilson" . Dictionary of National Biography. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  5. "Warneford". Oxford Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  6. Culling, Katy Sara (2011). Dark Clouds Gather. Chipmunka Publishing. ISBN 978-1847476678.



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