St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath

The hospital was designed by John Hamilton and James Medland in the Italianate style^[1] as the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum and opened in 1852.^[2] It became Bracebridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum in 1898 and Bracebridge Mental Hospital in 1919.^[2] It served as an Emergency Hospital during the Second World War and, having been renamed Bracebridge Heath Hospital in 1939, joined the National Health Service in 1948.^[2] It went on to become St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath in 1961.^[2]

The hospital closed in December 1989 and the site has been sold to a property developer who has built 183 luxury homes and apartments there.^[3] The original hospital buildings are classified as Grade II listed buildings.^[4]

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