The Montefiore Hospital is a
private hospital
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in
Hove
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, part of the English coastal city of
Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove () is a city and unitary authority in East Sussex, England. It consists primarily of the settlements of Brighton and Hove, alongside neighbouring villages.
Often referred to synonymously as Brighton, the City of Brighton and H ...
. It opened in November 2012 and is operated by
Spire Healthcare
Spire Healthcare Group plc is the second-largest provider of private healthcare in the United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
Spire Healthcare was formed from the sale of B ...
, the second largest provider of private healthcare in the United Kingdom. The hospital is located in a large and "distinctive
Edwardian
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commercial building"
designed by prolific local architects
Clayton & Black
Clayton & Black were a firm of architects and surveyors from Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. In a career spanning the Victorian, Edwardian and interwar eras, they were responsible for designing and constructing an eclect ...
between 1899 and 1904. Originally built for local department store
Hanningtons
Hanningtons was a department store located in Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Prominently situated in a central position in Brighton, it had an unbroken history of trading for nearly 200 years until its closure ...
as a furniture depository, the "magnificent red-brick building" was converted into offices for the
Legal & General
Legal & General Group plc, commonly known as Legal & General, is a British multinational financial services and asset management company headquartered in London, England. Its products and services include investment management, lifetime mortg ...
insurance company in 1972. Six years after that firm moved to a new site in Hove, Spire Healthcare bought the empty building and spent £25 million converting it into a hospital.
History of the building
Hanningtons
Hanningtons was a department store located in Brighton, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Prominently situated in a central position in Brighton, it had an unbroken history of trading for nearly 200 years until its closure ...
, Brighton's oldest and most famous department store,
was opened in a single shop unit in the town's North Street in 1808.
By the end of the 19th century it had expanded substantially and had
floated on the stock market.
More buildings were acquired throughout the town as the business grew, and by the 1860s Charles Smith Hannington (who had inherited the business from his father)
had established a furniture storage and removals division for the benefit of people moving to the many villas and large houses built in Brighton and neighbouring Hove in that era.
As this sideline expanded to cover removals from all parts of Britain, larger premises were needed. In 1898,
Hanningtons found a suitable site in Hove, then a smaller town adjoining Brighton to the west, and commissioned architects
Clayton & Black
Clayton & Black were a firm of architects and surveyors from Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. In a career spanning the Victorian, Edwardian and interwar eras, they were responsible for designing and constructing an eclect ...
to draw up a plan for a furniture
depository.
Clayton & Black (Charles E. Clayton, Ernest Black and their sons and various partners) were a prolific local firm who at the time were also based in North Street, Brighton.
Their commissions there included extensions to the
Brighton Friends Meeting House and the
Theatre Royal,
but much of their early work was in Hove, where they designed residential buildings including
Gwydyr Mansions
Gwydyr Mansions is a block of mansion flats in the centre of Hove, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Built on the initiative of a Baptist pastor and designed by the prolific architecture firm of Clayton & Black, the "elegan ...
and most of the Vallance Estate.
The "imposing site" chosen by Hanningtons was at the junction of Davigdor and Montefiore Roads,
near the Brighton boundary. On 16 March 1899, Hove Council gave their approval to the proposal; but work was delayed for more than two years until the land could be bought from the estate of the
Goldsmid family
Goldsmid is the name of a family of Anglo-Jewish bankers who sprang from Aaron Goldsmid (died 1782), a Dutch merchant who settled in England around 1763. Two of his sons, Benjamin Goldsmid (c. 1753-1808) and Abraham Goldsmid (c. 1756-1810), began ...
. This transaction was completed on 11 November 1901 at a cost of £3,750 (£ as of )).
Work on the depository continued until 1904.
Clayton & Black were again commissioned to extend the premises in 1915 and 1925; the latter work consisted of a workshop and stables, which were added to the northeast (Montefiore Road) side.
Hanningtons occupied the building until 1972, when it was sold to the
Legal & General Assurance Society. Architects Devereux and Partners undertook an "elegant" conversion of the premises on behalf of the insurance firm, including reglazing the windows while restoring their arched surrounds to their original condition.
In its new form, it was the earliest in a succession of large office buildings on the north side of Davigdor Road.
Legal & General occupied the building until 2005,
when the new City Park office development next to
Hove Park
Hove Park is a park within the English city of Brighton & Hove. It is also the name of an electoral ward in Brighton and Hove whose population at the 2011 census was 10,602.
Overview
A paved path goes all round the park, approximately 1.17 mi ...
was completed and the company moved its offices there. The Davigdor Road building was bought by the
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership (SWIP) was an asset management company based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was one of Europe's largest asset management companies, with £146 billion of funds under management as at 31 December 2013. These fu ...
, an
asset management
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company, and stood empty for six years.
In early 2011, it was stated that
Spire Healthcare
Spire Healthcare Group plc is the second-largest provider of private healthcare in the United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.
History
Spire Healthcare was formed from the sale of B ...
—a major operator of
private hospital
A private hospital is a hospital not owned by the government, including for-profits and non-profits. Funding is by patients themselves ("self-pay"), by insurers, or by foreign embassies. Private hospitals are commonly part, albeit in varying degr ...
s in Britain—had acquired the building and would spend £25 million converting it into a hospital. Construction was expected to take 15 months.
Renovations, which involved preserving the exterior features while removing all the old interior fittings and installing facilities such as
operating theatres and consultation rooms,
were carried out by Nightingale Architects with oversight from the hospital's director.
The work received a "Best Refurbishment" award in the Acumen Commercial Property Awards held in Brighton in April 2012, at which the achievement of a "very good"
BREEAM
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energy efficiency rating was noted.
As well as Nightingale, a local firm, other companies involved with the project were A.F. Pilbeam and Mansell Construction (building work) and EMC Management Consultants (project management).
When the project was announced, a summer 2012 opening date was anticipated,
and Spire Healthcare later announced 29 October 2012 as the first day of operation,
but The Montefiore Hospital eventually opened in November of that year.
The name of the hospital comes from the philanthropist Sir
Moses Montefiore
Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, (24 October 1784 – 28 July 1885) was a British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London. Born to an Italian Sephardic Jewish family based in London, afte ...
.
Hospital facilities
Private facilities established at The Montefiore Hospital since it opened include the Sussex IBS Clinic, for the treatment of
irritable bowel syndrome
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,
and the Spring
Orthopaedic
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Centre.
Consultations and treatments are offered for many other conditions and specialisms, such as
dermatology
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,
gynaecology
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,
rheumatology
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and
cosmetic surgery
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.
In September 2012, an
MRI scanner
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was installed at a cost of £1 million.
There are three operating theatres, 20 private en-suite bedrooms and facilities for
outpatient
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treatment.
Hospital consultant specialities
* Breast surgery
* Cardiology
* Colorectal surgery
* Cosmetic surgery
* Dermatology
* Ear, nose and throat (ENT)
* Endocrinology
* Gastroenterology
* General surgery
* Gynaecology
* Haematology
* Neurology
* Oncology
* Oral and maxillofacial surgery
* Orthopaedic Surgery
* Pain management
* Podiatry
* Rheumatology
* Spinal surgery
* Urology
* Vascular surgery
* Weight loss surgery
Architecture
Clayton & Black were a prolific and important local architecture firm in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Their work encompassed a great variety of architectural styles and a wide range of building types—although they specialised in commercial buildings.
They provided for Hanningtons "a magnificent red-brick building embellished with white stone and fine arched windows". Situated on an "imposing" corner site, it was given further prominence with a "handsome"
corner dome. The Davigdor Road (south) and Montefiore Road (east) elevations were and long respectively,
and there was of storage space inside, spread over five floors. These were stepped upwards from south to north because of the slope of the land, and load-bearing walls divided the interior into six sections. This meant the building was not well suited to the open-plan layout preferred in modern offices: "little interest" was shown by prospective commercial buyers during the years it was on the market.
See also
*
Healthcare in Sussex
Healthcare in Sussex was the responsibility of seven Clinical Commissioning Groups covering: Brighton and Hove; Coastal West Sussex; Horsham and Mid Sussex; Crawley; Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford; Hastings and Rother; High Weald; and Lewes-Have ...
*
List of hospitals in England
The following is a list of hospitals in England. For NHS trusts, see the list of NHS Trusts.
East Midlands
* Arnold Lodge, Leicestershire
*Babington Hospital – Belper, Derbyshire
*Bassetlaw District General Hospital – Worksop, Nottinghams ...
References
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2012 establishments in England
Hospital buildings completed in 1904
Clayton & Black buildings
Buildings and structures in Brighton and Hove
Hospitals in East Sussex
Hospitals established in 2012
Private hospitals in the United Kingdom
External links
* {{Official website, themontefiorehospital.co.uk
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