St Lawrence Hospital, Chepstow

St Lawrence Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty St Lawrence) was a specialist plastic surgery and burns hospital on the west side of St Lawrence Road in Chepstow, Wales.

St Lawrence Hospital
Shown in Monmouthshire
Geography
LocationChepstow, Monmouthshire, Wales
Coordinates51.6390°N 2.6900°W / 51.6390; -2.6900
Organisation
Care systemLocal authority and private subscription to 1948; NHS from 1948
TypeSpecialist
Services
SpecialityBurns unit
History
Opened1942
Links
ListsHospitals in Wales

History

St Lawrence Hospital was opened in 1942, on the opposite side of the road to Mount Pleasant Hospital, and was used by the War Department throughout the rest of the Second World War as a military hospital; patients included Italian prisoners of war. In September 1949, it was taken over by the Welsh Hospital Board and the Newport and East Monmouthshire Hospital Management Committee, to form a plastic surgery unit.[1] Expansion in the 1950s brought the number of beds to 124, including a burns unit for which it became particularly well known.[2] The lead surgeon in charge of the hospital at the time was Emlyn Evans Lewis (1905–1969).[3][4]

In 1994 the burns and plastic surgery units were transferred to Morriston Hospital, Swansea.[5] The hospital was later demolished and the site used for housing.[6][7]

References
  1. "Plastic Surgery Unit". Hansard. 27 April 1960. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  2. Ivor Waters, The Town of Chepstow, 1972, p.191
  3. "Lewis, Emlyn Evans", Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 28 October 2020
  4. "Lewis, Emlyn Evans", Royal College of Surgeons of England, 26 August 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2020
  5. The Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery. Retrieved 17 March 2015
  6. "Proposed Housing Development at Bayfield, Chepstow, Gwent". The Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust. p. 18. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
  7. "Reserved Matters Application For Landscaping Scheme: St Lawrence Hospital, St Lawrence Road, Chepstow, Monmouthshire, NP16 5YX". Monmouthshire Council. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
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