St George's Hospital, Morpeth

St George's Hospital was a mental health facility in Morpeth, Northumberland.

St George's Hospital
St George's Hospital
Shown in Northumberland
Geography
Location	Morpeth, Northumberland, England
Coordinates	55.1762°N 1.6838°W
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Services
Speciality	Mental health
History
Opened	1859
Closed	2006
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

History

The facility was designed by Henry Welch, the County Surveyor of Northumberland, using a corridor plan layout and opened as the Northumberland County Pauper Lunatic Asylum on 16 March 1859.[1] It was extended in the 1880s and three villas were added in the 1890s, before it was renamed St George's Hospital in the 1930s.[1] A German Luftwaffe bomber crash landed in the hospital grounds in 1942 during the Second World War[2] and the hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2006.[1] Many of the old buildings have been demolished and the site has been developed for residential use as "Saint George".[4]

Meanwhile, a small modern health facility, which was named St George's Park was built slightly to the north of the old hospital.[1]

References

1. "St George's Hospital, Morpeth". County Asylums. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
2. "Morpeth hospital's fascinating history". Morpeth Herald. 18 August 2006. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
3. "St George's Hospital, Morpeth". National Archives. Retrieved 2 December 2018.
4. "Work starts on £90m transformation of derelict St George's Hospital in Morpeth". Chronicle Live. 24 August 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2019.