The Coppice Hospital was a mental health facility in

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, England.

History

The hospital, which was designed by

Thomas Chambers Hine Thomas Chambers Hine (31 May 1813 – 6 February 1899) was an architect based in Nottingham. Background He was born in Covent Garden into a prosperous middle-class family, the eldest son of Jonathan Hine (1780–1862), a hosiery manufacturer an ...

in the

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using a corridor plan layout, opened as the Coppice Private Asylum in August 1859. Two new wings, designed by

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, the original architect's son, were completed in the 1880s. Although initially established as a private asylum for fee-paying patients, the facility was owned by the Nottingham County Council and being unable to compete with the state, it joined the

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as the Coppice Hospital in 1948. After the introduction of

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in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1985. The main buildings were subsequently converted into apartments as Hine Hall. Meanwhile, a modern mental health facility known as the Springwood Centre was established near the old hospital, although this has also since closed.

References

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