Cheadle Royal Hospital

Cheadle Royal Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Heald Green, Greater Manchester, England, built between 1848 and 1849. The main building is Grade II listed.[1]

Cheadle Royal Hospital
Cheadle Royal Hospital from the air
Cheadle Royal Hospital is located in Greater Manchester
Cheadle Royal Hospital
Shown in Greater Manchester
Geography
LocationHeald Green, Greater Manchester, England
Coordinates53°22′29″N 2°13′16″W / 53.3748°N 2.2211°W / 53.3748; -2.2211
Organisation
Care systemPrivate
TypeSpecialist
Services
Emergency departmentNo
SpecialityMental Health
History
Opened1763

History

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The hospital was founded at a time when only two other similar institutions existed in England (Bethlem and St Luke's)[2] and was initially located next to the Manchester Infirmary in 1763.[3] It was designed by Richard Lane in the Elizabethan style[1] and it opened as the Manchester Lunatic Hospital in 1766.[2] It had 24 beds when it opened, but had over 100 patients by 1800.[2]

The facility relocated to Cheadle, 10 miles (16 km) to the south, as the Manchester Royal Hospital for the Insane, in 1849.[2] Voluntary patients, known as boarders, were admitted from 1863.[2] The hospital expanded through the construction of villas on the Cheadle site in the 1860s and through the acquisition of houses in Colwyn Bay in the 1870s.[2] The site in Cheadle was initially 37 acres (15 ha); in the following 80 years about 220 acres (89 ha) were added and the original part of the site subsequently became formal gardens and sport and recreation grounds. A convalescent hospital at Glan-y-Don, Colwyn Bay, was also established.[4]

The facility became Cheadle Royal Hospital in 1902[2] and North House, with accommodation for 80 additional patients, was opened in 1903.[5] It had provision for the treatment of 400 patients in 1928[6] but it chose to remain private rather than joining the National Health Service in 1948.[2] The hospital was acquired by its management team in 1997 and then by Priory Group in 2010.[7]

Famous patients

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Famous patients have included:

See also

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References

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A plan of the Manchester Infirmary and Manchester Lunatic Hospital, 1845
  1. ^ a b Historic England. "Cheadle Royal Hospital (1001337)". National Heritage List for England.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h "Cheadle Royal Hospital". Manchester Medical Collection. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  3. ^ "Cheadle Royal Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  4. ^ The Book of Manchester and Salford; for the British Medical Association. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; pp. 146-47
  5. ^ Brockbank, William (1952). Portrait of a Hospital. London: William Heinemann. pp. 116–164.
  6. ^ The Book of Manchester and Salford...for the...annual meeting of the British Medical Association...1929. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; p. 146-47
  7. ^ "Cheadle Royal sold to Priory in Affinity deal". Business Desk. 18 January 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  8. ^ Owen, W. B. (1912). "Briggs, John" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  9. ^ Margot Bryant at IMDb
  10. ^ Brogan, Hugh (1984). The Life of Arthur Ransome. Jonathan Cape. p. 433.

Further reading

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  • Nesta Roberts, Cheadle Royal Hospital: A bicentenary history (1967)
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