St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath was a mental health facility at

Bracebridge Heath Bracebridge Heath is a village and civil parish located approximately south of the city of Lincoln, in Lincolnshire, England. It lies at the junction of two major roads the A15 to Sleaford and the A607 to Grantham, and was (until modern sy ...

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History

The hospital was designed by John Hamilton and James Medland in the

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as the Lincolnshire County Lunatic Asylum and opened in 1852. It became Bracebridge Pauper Lunatic Asylum in 1898 and Bracebridge Mental Hospital in 1919. It served as an Emergency Hospital during the

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and, having been renamed Bracebridge Heath Hospital in 1939, joined the

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in 1948. It went on to become St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath in 1961. The hospital closed in December 1989 and the site has been sold to a property developer who has built 183 luxury homes and apartments there. The original hospital buildings are classified as Grade II

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Saint John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath Defunct hospitals in England Hospitals established in 1852 Hospitals disestablished in 1989 Hospital buildings completed in 1852 History of Lincolnshire Former psychiatric hospitals in England