Babington Hospital is a healthcare facility in

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, England. It is managed by the

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History

The site chosen for the facility was known as Babington Meadow. The oldest part of the facility, the eastern courtyard, which was designed by

Sir George Gilbert Scott Sir George Gilbert Scott (13 July 1811 – 27 March 1878), known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started ...

and

William Bonython Moffatt William Bonython Moffatt (1812 – 24 May 1887) was an architect, who for many years was a partner with Sir George Gilbert Scott at Spring Gardens, London. Moffatt was the son of a small builder and pupil of James Edmeston. He was originally taken ...

in the

Jacobean style The Jacobean style is the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style. It is named after King James VI and I, with whose reign (1603–1625 in England) it is associated. At the start of James' reign there ...

, was opened as the Belper Poor Law Union Workhouse in September 1840. A main entrance lodge to the eastern courtyard was built facing on the Derby Road at around the same time. A large infirmary was added on the western part of the site in 1889. The facility became the Babington House Public Assistance Institution in 1930 and it joined the

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the " ...

as Babington Hospital in 1948. In June 2018 the NHS Southern Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Group announced plans to transfer services to a modern facility in Derwent Street.

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