Bootham Park Hospital

Coordinates: 53°58′01″N 1°05′13″W / 53.967°N 1.087°W / 53.967; -1.087

Frontage of Bootham Park Hospital as seen from Bootham.

Bootham Park Hospital was a psychiatric hospital, latterly part of Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust. It is located in the Bootham district of York, England, and is a Grade I listed building.[1]

History

Side view of Bootham Park Hospital from Union Terrace. The pavilion on the left is an end-on view of Carr's original building.

In 1772, Robert Hay Drummond, the Archbishop of York, decided along with "twenty-four Yorkshire gentlemen" to establish an asylum, called the 'County Lunatic Asylum, York'. A committee was established, and the architect John Carr was co-opted with a pledge of 25 guineas. Carr's patron, the Marquis of Rockingham, pledged 100 guineas, and a total of £2500 was subscribed. By July 1773, £5000 had been promised, and Carr's scheme to accommodate 54 patients was approved on 25 August. The building was completed in 1777.[2] The name of the building was later changed to Bootham Park Hospital.

Criticism about the handling of inmates and the death of Hannah Mills led the local Quaker community to found, in 1790, a new asylum known as The Retreat.

The hospital owns the only known portrait of "mayor" of Garrat, Sir Jeffrey Dunstan (c.1759-1796), (artist unknown).

Current use

Bootham Park Hospital currently houses two acute admission wards, one for women and another for men. It also has an elderly assessment unit for people over 65 needing mental health assessment and care. The Intensive Home Treatment Team is also based at the hospital together with other community services and management.

Closure

On 25 April 2014, it was announced that Bootham Park Hospital was to be closed, and a new hospital built in York.[3]

In late September 2015 the hospital was declared unfit by the Care Quality Commission, and ordered to close by the end of the month.[4][5]

References

  1. ↑ Description at British Listed Buildings
  2. ↑ Wragg, Brian (2000). The Life and Works of John Carr of York. Otley: Oblong. p. 231. ISBN 0-9536574-1-8.
  3. ↑ http://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/news/latest_news/1/699
  4. ↑ "York's Bootham Park Hospital 'unfit' and will close". BBC. 26 September 2015. Retrieved 27 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Kate Liptrot (25 September 2015). "Bootham Park Hospital to shut after damning inspection and ceiling collapse". The Press (York). Retrieved 27 September 2015.

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