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Royal Navy Hospital, Stonehouse

The naval hospital was built in 1758–65 to a design by Alexander Rowehead. The hospital housed 1,200 patients in sixty wards, its ten ward blocks being arranged around a courtyard with a central block containing the chapel, dispensary and staff housing. The design was influential in its time: its pattern of detached wards (arranged so as to minimise spread of infection) foreshadows the 'pavilion' style of hospital building which was popularised by Florence Nightingale a century later. Patients were landed directly from Stonehouse Creek (now playing fields). The hospital closed in 1995; it is now a gated residential complex called Millfields
by N Chadwick

Created: Sun, 27 May 2018, Updated: Sun, 27 May 2018


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SX4654 : Boundary wall, Former Royal Naval Hospital by N Chadwick
2018
SX4654 : Former Royal Naval Hospital by N Chadwick
2018
SX4654 : Water Tower, Former Royal Naval Hospital by N Chadwick
2018
SX4654 : Water Tower, Former Royal Navy Hospital by N Chadwick
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SX4654 : Water Tower, Former Naval Hospital by N Chadwick
2017
SX4654 : Former Royal Naval Hospital Water Tower by N Chadwick
2015


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