Pastures Hospital was a mental health facility at

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, England. The church is a Grade II

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History

The hospital, which was designed by

Henry Duesbury Henry Duesbury (a relative of the Duesbury family of Royal Crown Derby fame) was the Borough Architect for Derby from 1841 to about 1854. He designed the Derby Guildhall, the Arboretum Square entrance and orangery, and the so-called Crystal Palace ...

in the

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using a corridor layout, opened in August 1851. The chapel was completed in 1869 and additional wards were created in 1895 and in 1905. It became Derbyshire County Mental Hospital in 1918 and joined the

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as Pastures 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 1994. The main administration block was subsequently converted into apartments as Duesbury Court.

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