Lancaster Moor Hospital

Lancaster Moor Hospital

The 1816 building in 2008
Location in Lancaster
Geography
Location Lancaster, Lancashire, England
Coordinates 54°02′56″N 2°46′19″W / 54.049°N 2.772°W / 54.049; -2.772Coordinates: 54°02′56″N 2°46′19″W / 54.049°N 2.772°W / 54.049; -2.772
Organisation
Hospital type Specialist
Services
Speciality Psychiatry
History
Founded 1816
Closed 2000
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name Moor Hospital, Blocks 40, 41, 42, 44 and 46
Designated 24 January 1994
Reference no. 1289436
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name Moor Hospital, New Block
Designated 24 January 1994
Reference no. 1195079
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name Boundary walls, railings, gates and gate piers at Lancaster Moor Hospital
Designated 13 September 2006
Reference no. 1391761
The 1883 building in 2010

Lancaster Moor Hospital, formerly the Lancaster County Lunatic Asylum and Lancaster County Mental Hospital, was a mental hospital in Lancaster, Lancashire, England, which closed in 2000 (the mental health departments may have left in 1991, but others remained).

It was opened in 1816 in a building by architect Thomas Standen; a further building, known as "The Annexe" was opened in 1883, designed by Arnold W. Kershaw in gothic style and is grade II listed[1] as are its walls, railings, and gateways.[2] The hospital's chapel was built in 1866 by E. G. Paley and is grade II listed.[3]

The hospital was a pioneering site for the humane treatment of the mentally ill.[4] The writer Alan Bennett describes his mother's treatment in the hospital in his memoirs.[4]

Since the hospital's closure in 2000, the Annexe and chapel have been converted into apartments, and houses are being built in the grounds.[5][6]

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