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Hospital in Ipswich, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
St Clement's Hospital was a mental health facility at Foxhall Road in Ipswich, Suffolk, England.
St Clement's Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Ipswich, England |
Coordinates | 52.0509°N 1.1930°E |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
Type | Specialist |
Services | |
Speciality | Mental health |
History | |
Opened | 1870 |
Closed | 2002 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The hospital, which was designed by William Ribbans in the Italianate style using a single linear corridor layout, opened as the Ipswich Borough Lunatic Asylum in 1870.[1] An extra story was added to the building in the 1890s and it became Ipswich Mental Hospital in 1908.[1] The hospital joined the National Health Service as St Clement's Hospital in 1948.[2]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2002.[1] The main buildings were subsequently converted into offices for administrative use by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.[3] This use continued until early 2017 when the buildings were converted into apartments as Belgrove Place.[4]
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