The Kent and Canterbury Hospital, colloquially known among residents as the K+C, is a community hospital in
Canterbury
Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Stour.
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,
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
, England. It is managed by the
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital trusts in England. It runs the Kent and Canterbury Hospital (Canterbury), William Harvey Hospital (Ashford), Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital (Margate), ...
.
History
After a suitable site on land formerly belonging to
St Augustine's Abbey
St Augustine's Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Canterbury, Kent, England. The abbey was founded in 598 and functioned as a monastery until its dissolution in 1538 during the English Reformation. After the abbey's dissolution, it underwent ...
had been identified, the foundation stone for the Kent and Canterbury Infirmary was laid by
Sir Edward Knatchbull in June 1791.
It was completed in September 1793
and extended in 1829, 1838 and 1871.
[
The present hospital, which was designed in the ]Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French ''Arts Décoratifs'', and sometimes just called Deco, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in France in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the Unite ...
style, was opened by the Duke of Kent
Duke of Kent is a title that has been created several times in the peerages of peerage of Great Britain, Great Britain and the peerage of the United Kingdom, United Kingdom, most recently as a Royal dukedoms in the United Kingdom, royal dukedom ...
in 1937.National Health Service
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in 1948[ and the gynecology department of the hospital moved to Higham Park in 1951 where it would remain for some 30 years.][
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Hospitals in Kent
NHS hospitals in England
Buildings and structures in Canterbury