Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton
Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton | |
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Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust | |
![]() The Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton | |
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![]() ![]() Location in West Midlands | |
Geography | |
Location | Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom |
Coordinates | 52°34′53″N 2°07′14″W / 52.58128°N 2.12053°WCoordinates: 52°34′53″N 2°07′14″W / 52.58128°N 2.12053°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | Public NHS |
Type | Acute general hospital |
History | |
Opened | 1846 |
Closed | 1997 |
Links | |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
The Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton was an acute general hospital in the All Saints inner city area of Wolverhampton.
History[]
The hospital was designed by Edward Banks in the classical style and built between 1846 and 1849 on land acquired from the Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland.[1] It was opened as the South Staffordshire Hospital but became the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire General Hospital in the second half of the 19th century.[1] The internal layout rapidly became outdated when the pavilion system, where patients were separated by type of illness, was introduced at new hospitals in 1852.[2] Additions included a new wing for in-patients as well as a new block for out-patients in 1872, a fever ward in 1873, a medical library in 1877, an additional two-storey in-patient wing in 1912 and the vast King Edward VII Memorial Wing in 1923.[1] It was renamed the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton in December 1928.[1] A further block of in-patient wards was completed in the late 1930s.[1]
The hospital closed in June 1997 with services being transferred to New Cross Hospital; the site was acquired for retail development by Tesco in 2001 but, after that development stalled in January 2015,[3] the site was sold on to the Homes and Communities Agency for residential development in March 2016.[4]
The hospitals name lives on thanks to the nearby West Midlands Metro tram stop, The Royal.[5]
References[]
- ^ a b c d e "Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton". History website. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ "Wolverhampton hospital that was built three years too soon". Black Country Bugle. 20 August 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ "Tesco pulls out of Wolverhampton Royal Hospital store plan". Express and Star. 8 January 2015. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ "Wolverhampton Royal Hospital site development: Major step forward as plan for 150 homes goes in". Express and Star. 16 September 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
- ^ "Midland Metro timetable". Network West Midlands. Retrieved 11 July 2019.
- Hospitals in the West Midlands (county)
- Buildings and structures in Wolverhampton
- 1849 establishments in England
- 1997 disestablishments in England
- Hospitals disestablished in 1997
- Defunct hospitals in England