St Audry's Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in
Melton, Suffolk
Melton is a village in Suffolk, England, located approximately one mile north east of Woodbridge. The 2001 census recorded a population of 3,718, the population increasing to 3,741 at the 2011 Census. The village is served by Melton railway stat ...
, England.
History
The facility has its origins in a
house of industry which was acquired by the county authority in Suffolk in 1827 and converted into a
lunatic asylum
The lunatic asylum (or insane asylum) was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital.
The fall of the lunatic asylum and its eventual replacement by modern psychiatric hospitals explains the rise of organized, institutional psychiatry ...
in 1829.
The asylum was re-modeled to a design by Scott and Moffatt in 1844.
[ A chapel was added in 1862, additional ward pavilions were built in an ]echelon formation
An echelon formation () is a (usually military) formation in which its units are arranged diagonally. Each unit is stationed behind and to the right (a "right echelon"), or behind and to the left ("left echelon"), of the unit ahead. The name of ...
in the 1870s and two more ward blocks were completed in 1904.[
The facility became St Audry's Hospital for Mental Diseases in 1917.][ and converted for use as residences. The administration block with the main entrance has been a ]Grade II listed building
In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...
since 11 June 1985, and the South Entrance Pavilion has been Grade II listed since 14 November 1997.
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Hospital buildings completed in 1869
Grade II listed buildings in Suffolk
Hospitals in Suffolk
Defunct hospitals in England
Former psychiatric hospitals in England
1869 establishments in England