Sunnyside Hospital

Sunnyside Hospital
Sunnyside Asylum, Christchurch. Completed in 1891, this was one of Mountfort's last major works. Designed in a chateauesque Gothic, the large windows created the air of a country house rather than place of incarceration.
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Geography
LocationChristchurch, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Coordinates43°33′03″S 172°35′34″E / 43.5509°S 172.5929°E / -43.5509; 172.5929
Services
Emergency departmentNo
History
Opened1863
Closed1999
Links
ListsHospitals in New Zealand

Sunnyside Hospital (1863–1999) was the first mental asylum to be built in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was initially known as Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum, and its first patients were 17 people who had previously been kept in the Lyttelton gaol.[1] In 2007, Hilmorton Hospital is just one of the mental health services that are based on the old Sunnyside Hospital grounds.

  1. ^ Blake-Palmer, Geoffrey. 1966. 'Hospitals, Mental', In A. H. McLintock, ed., An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand. (Accessed 19 August 2007)[1]