Volume: Mendip Hospital, St. Cuthbert Out, Somerset

Date:: 1874 - 10 Feb 1992

Location:: Mendip Hospital, St. Cuthbert Out, South Horrington, Mendip, Somerset; Show all locations

Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum, St. Cuthbert Out, Horrington, Somerset

Somerset and Bath Asylum, St. Cuthbert Out, Horrington, Somerset

Wells Mental Hospital, St. Cuthbert Out, Horrington, Somerset

Somerset and Bath Mental Hospital, St. Cuthbert Out, Horrington, Somerset

Reference:: BF100158

Type:: Volume Containing Photographic, Graphic, Textual And Miscellaneous Material

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Description

The hospital opened in 1848 as the 'Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum', and was later known as the 'Somerset and Bath Asylum'. By around 1930 it was called 'Wells Mental Hospital' or 'Somerset and Bath Mental Hospital'. By 1969 the hospital had been renamed as Mendip Hospital. It closed in 1991.

Miniature format film numbers 160R, 160S, 160T and 161C

Content

This is part of the Series: RCH01/008 Hospitals Project; within the Collection: RCH01 Royal Commission On The Historical Monuments Of England (Rchme) Archive

This Volume is divided into 2 Jobs and 1 Child Record

This Volume contains the following materials:

Photograph (Print): 124

Photograph (Print): 40

Photograph (Print): 5

Measured Drawing: 4

File: 1

Record Sheet/Form: 28

Report: 2

Report: 1

Rights

People & Organisations

Photographer: Williams, Peter: Rchme Swindon

Architectural Field Investigator: Morrison, Kathy: Rchme Cambridge Architecture

Architectural Field Investigator: Taylor, Robert: Rchme Cambridge Architecture

Keywords

Psychiatric Hospital