Clifton Hospital was a mental health facility in

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, England.

History

The hospital, which was designed by George Gilbert Scott and

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using a Corridor Plan layout, opened as the North and East Ridings Pauper Lunatic Asylum in April 1847. The hospital was considerably extended in stages to designs developed by

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in the second half of the 19th century. It became the North Riding Lunatic Asylum in 1865 and the North Riding Mental Hospital in 1920 before joining the

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as Clifton Hospital in 1948. After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1994. The main building was demolished and the site was redeveloped in part as offices for

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and in part for residential use as "Clifton Park" but the original chapel survives. The Clifton Park NHS Treatment Centre was erected on the site in 2006.

References

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