Carlton Hayes Hospital
Hospital in England
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Carlton Hayes Hospital, Narborough, Leicestershire was the psychiatric hospital of Leicestershire from 1907 to 1995.[1]
| Carlton Hayes Hospital | |
|---|---|
Carlton Hayes Hospital | |
  Shown in Leicestershire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Narborough, England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52.58°N 1.21°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public NHS |
| Type | Public |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No Accident & Emergency |
| History | |
| Founded | 1907 |
| Closed | 1995 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
History
The complex was built to the designs of Samuel Perkins Pick (1858-1919),[2] a well-known Leicester architect, in the Art Nouveau style as the Leicestershire County Asylum and was officially opened on 1 October 1907.[3] It became known as the Leicestershire and Rutland Mental Hospital in 1914.[3]
Significant extensions designed by William Keay were completed in the 1930s.[4] It became Carlton Hayes Hospital in 1939 and joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3] Philip Larkin's mother was a patient in the hospital in 1956: he described it as "large and dingy as a London terminus".[5]
The complex was demolished after 1996, and the site redeveloped by the Alliance & Leicester Building Society for their new headquarters.[6] The only remaining hospital building is the former chapel which is Grade II listed.[7]