Cefn Mably Hospital
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Cefn Mably Hospital is the name of a hospital which was situated in the St Mellons region of Cardiff, South Wales, UK. A house of some sort stood there in the early twelfth century. It was largely rebuilt in the Tudor style in the sixteenth century; the east wing was subsequently rebuilt from 1688 in Georgian style. [1] As a manor house, in 1893 it was described by the Cardiff Times as one of the finest and most historic country seats in Wales" [2]. The building was leased by Lord Tredegar at very low cost to the local health authority as a tuberculosis sanatorium in the 1920s. At its opening in 1924 it held 112 patients.[1] Subsequently it became a general hospital. When it closed down in 1983, the building, which was listed [3] , became derelict[4]. A fire raged through the building in 1994 [2]: the remains of the building were eventually converted and luxury apartments were built on the site.
[edit] References
- ^ a b V Goodman, "Cefn Mably Hospital", Glamorgan Family History Society Journal no 59, September 2000
- ^ a b http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/eisteddfodarts03/artist/davies-sutton2.shtml
- ^ http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/arch/landscapes/ukpg/sites/cefnmabl.htm Detail of listing
- ^ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199899/cmselect/cmcumeds/195/195ap36.htm "A beautiful house that has been so brutally vandalised it has now become the local fly tip": evidence given to the House of Commons by the charity Save Britain's Heritage.
