Sheffield Royal Infirmary

The former hospital

The Royal Infirmary was a hospital in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The establishment opened in 1792 under the name Sheffield General Infirmary, renamed Royal Infirmary in 1897 and closed in the 1980s.

The nurses home

Built by J.D.Webster & Sons, many of the establishment's features made it unique. An innovative octagonal outpatients department was built in 1884, and was lit by a cupola. It had a roof of wrought iron lattice girders and a tiled waiting room with the consulting rooms leading off it. Young & Hall, specialists in hospital architecture, extended it in 1900. A nurses' home with the name "Centenary House" was built on the grounds in 1897.

The original block, along with its south-east and south-west wings, has been renamed Heritage House and is a Grade II* listed building.^[1] Part of the site is now occupied by a Tesco supermarket and part is offices occupied by [Aviva] insurance.

The hospital was used for filming a casualty scene from an imagined nuclear attack on Sheffield in the 1984 film Threads.

References

↑ English Heritage (1995) Heritage House. Images of England (accessed 7 May 2006).

Listed buildings in Sheffield

Grade I	Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Works St Mary, Ecclesfield St Nicholas, Bradfield Sheffield Cathedral Town Hall

Grade II*	Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet Housing Arts Tower and Library Beauchief Abbey Beauchief Hall Beehive Works Bishops' House Botanical Gardens Glasshouses Broom Hall Butchers Wheel City Hall Cornish Place Cutlers' Hall Darnall Works Ecclesfield Priory Endcliffe Hall Fair House Farmhouse General Cemetery Globe Works Green Lane Works Gateway Heritage House King Edward VII Upper School Leah's Yard Little Matlock Rolling Mill Loxley United Reformed Church Lyceum Theatre Manor Lodge Turret House Mappin Art Gallery The Mount Mount Pleasant Norton Hall Oakes Park Old Queen's Head Onesacre Hall Paradise Square Park Hill Flats St James, Midhopestones St James, Norton St John, Ranmoor St Mary, Bramall Lane St Mary the Virgin, Beighton St Paul, Wordsworth Avenue Sharrow Mills Victoria Quays Terminal Warehouse Well Meadow Street Crucible Furnace Whitley Hall Hotel Wicker Arches

Lists	City Centre S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9 S10 S11 S12 S13 S14 S17 S20 S35

Coordinates: 53°23′24″N 1°29′02″W / 53.39°N 1.484°W / 53.39; -1.484

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