Parc Hospital

Parc Gwyllt Farm and Gelliau Farm were identified in 1880 as forming a site suitable for the purposes of building an asylum.^[1] The hospital, which was designed by Giles, Gough and Trollope using a compact arrow layout, opened as the Second Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum in 1886.^[2] It became Parc Gwyllt County Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as Parc Hospital in 1948.^[3]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1996.^[2] The hospital was subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped as Parc Prison in 1997.^[3] The old clocktower from Park Hospital has been restored and remains visible to the public on the Parc Prison site.^[4]

• Saunders, Mark (1993). Parc Hospital: the Last Days. Valley and Vale. ISBN 978-0951483145.