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De la Pole Hospital

De la Pole Hospital

Hospital in East Riding of Yorkshire, England

De la Pole Hospital (also known as De la Pole Psychiatric Hospital) was a mental health facility in Willerby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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History

The hospital was located on a site previously occupied by De la Pole Farm.[1] It was designed by Frederick Stead Brodrick and Richard George Smith in the Victorian Gothic style, using a courtyard plan and opened as Kingston upon Hull Borough Asylum in December 1883.[1] It became the Willerby Mental Hospital in the 1920s before joining the National Health Service as De la Pole Hospital in 1948.[1]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and eventually closed in July 1998.[1] The main buildings have been demolished and that part of the site was redeveloped for business unit use.[1] The chapel survives as a Grade II listed building and is now used as part of a crematorium.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    "De la Pole Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
  2. [2]
    Historic England. "Church At De La Pole Hospital (Block 49) (1376808)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
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