Mendip Hospital | |
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Location | Horrington, Somerset, England |
Coordinates | 51°12′56″N 2°36′57″W / 51.2155°N 2.6157°W |
Built | 1848 |
Architect | George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Mendip Hospital Main Building |
Designated | 19 December 1990[1] |
Reference no. | 1345148 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Chapel with Covered Approach to Mendip Hospital |
Designated | 19 December 1990[2] |
Reference no. | 1058586 |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | South Lodge to Mendip Hospital |
Designated | 19 December 1990[3] |
Reference no. | 1058587 |
Mendip Hospital opened in 1848 as the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Horrington, near Wells, in the English county of Somerset.
As a county asylum, it was replaced by Tone Vale Hospital in 1897, but it continued to house long-stay elderly and mentally infirm patients. It finally closed in 1991, when the buildings were converted into houses and apartments.