Barnes Hospital, Cheadle
Barnes Hospital | |
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Former names | Barnes Convalescent Home |
General information | |
Status | Converted into apartments |
Type | Former hospital |
Architectural style | French Gothic Revival[1] |
Location | Cheadle, Greater Manchester, England |
Coordinates | 53°23′50″N 2°13′24.7″W / 53.39722°N 2.223528°W |
Construction started | 1871 |
Completed | 1875 |
Renovated | 1893, 1945 |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Lawrence Booth[1] |
Designations | |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
Official name | Barnes Hospital |
Designated | 12 November 1999 |
Reference no. | 1379609 |
Barnes Hospital in
The building, completed in 1875, is a noted example of Victorian Gothic Revival architecture and a prominent landmark, sitting on a mount overlooking the surrounding roads. The hospital closed in 1999, and although the building was promptly listed to protect it from demolition, it became derelict.[1]
The former hospital building has now been converted into flats and is at the centre of a new housing development called Barnes Village.[4]
History
Following the improvements to nursing inspired by the work of Florence Nightingale in the 1860s, demand for convalescent care grew in the British hospital system. The philanthropist Joseph Adshead campaigned for the construction of a convalescent hospital in Manchester; after his death in 1861, Manchester Royal Infirmary rented Cheadle Hall, to the south of the city, for use as a convalescent hospital. The rural location was selected as a recuperating atmosphere away from the industrial smog of Manchester. The site is now surrounded by major roads on all sides.[5]
A donation of £10,000 for the founding of a new
Construction of the Barnes Convalescent Home in Cheadle started in 1871 and was completed in 1875. It was constructed of bricks, the clay for which was provided locally. There were 132 beds.
The hospital lost several thousand pounds a year and had to be subsidized by Manchester Royal Infirmary, but in 1925 the trustees accepted that this enabled more patients to be admitted to the main hospital. Electricity and a mains water supply were installed in that year. When an orthopaedic department was established at the infirmary many long-stay patients were cared for at Barnes. Lifts, a surgical theatre, an X-ray department, a physiotherapy gym and occupational therapy department were established.[9]
During
It closed in September 1999 while
The hospital was sold in 2001,[3] and was for a number of years owned by Realty Estates who allowed the listed building to fall into a state of dereliction.[13] It was later sold to the Irish property development group Benmore for a sum estimated to be around £12 million. The company proposed a new 128 residential unit development around the hospital building but it was never proposed to the planning authority.[16]
Architecture
The Barnes Convalescent Hospital was built for the
Barnes Hospital was not given a lengthy description in
Filming location
Barnes Hospital was used as one of a number of filming locations by the Spanish director Jorge Grau for his 1974 horror film, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, otherwise known as The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue. Grau's careful choice of locations was praised by critics for its depiction of England as "a very bleak place indeed, full of sinister quietness", and he emphasised the sense of Gothic decay in Barnes Hospital to create the fictional Manchester Morgue.[19][20]
In September 2005, the Barnes Hospital building was featured on the
Redevelopment
A redevelopment on the site, including the conversion of the hospital into apartments, commenced on site in 2015. The development is known as Barnes Village.[21][22]
See also
- Listed buildings in Cheadle and Gatley
- Healthcare in Greater Manchester
- List of hospitals in England
References
- ^ a b c d Historic England. "Barnes Hospital (1379609)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ a b c d "Barnes Hospital History – Abandoned Photography". opacity.us. Archived from the original on 21 April 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ a b c "Hospital sold to mystery buyer". Stockport Express. M.E.N. Media. 28 February 2001. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ "Barnes Village". Retrieved 19 February 2021.
- ^ ISBN 9780719018091. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ "Robert Barnes (1800-1871)". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Archived from the original on 25 September 2017. Retrieved 25 September 2017.
- ^ "Cheadle Conservation Area Character Appraisal". Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council. March 2006. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2010.
- ^ "Cheadle Parish Church—St Mary's". Archived from the original on 4 June 2008. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ Brockbank, William (1952). Portrait of a Hospital. London: William Heinemann. pp. 116–164.
- ^ "WW2 People's War – an archive of World War Two memories". 17 January 2005. Retrieved 13 December 2014.
- ^ Kushner 2006, p. 73
- ^ "Barnes Hospital, Cheadle And Bramhall". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 22 August 2012.
- ^ a b Weisgard, Jon (15 April 2005). "Ex-hospital due to become flats". Stockport Express. M.E.N. Media. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ "Kosovan Refugees". Manchester City Council. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ Skinner, Miles (28 February 2007). "Gatley counts cost of clean-up after Gypsies". Stockport Express. M.E.N. Media. Retrieved 14 April 2008.
- ^ "Benmore Developments". Retrieved 16 September 2012.
- ISBN 0300095880. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
- ^ Kushner 2006, p. 70
- ^ Kushner 2006, p. 71
- ^ "The Living Dead". IMDB. Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- ^ "Barnes Village". Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^ "They dreamed of luxury living in new homes. But it's turned into a nightmare for residents of this former hospital". Manchester Evening News. 10 February 2020. Retrieved 23 September 2022.
Bibliography
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