1990
SK0573 : The Devonshire Royal Hospital in 1990
taken 34 years ago, near to Buxton, Derbyshire, England
The Devonshire Royal Hospital in 1990
The Devonshire Royal Hospital building (now popularly known as the Devonshire Dome) is a Grade II* listed 18th-century former stable block. It was built in the 1780s by John Carr of York and extended by architect Robert Rippon Duke, who added what was then the world's largest unsupported dome, with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft). It is now the site of the Devonshire campus of the University of Derby.
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This is a scan of an old print showing the building in its final years of use as a hydropathic hospital. It was the last of eight such hospitals in England and finally closed in 2000.
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