Cherry Knowle Hospital was a mental health facility in Ryhope, Tyne and Wear, England. It was managed by the South of Tyne and Wearside Mental Health NHS Trust.
| Cherry Knowle Hospital | |
|---|---|
| South of Tyne and Wearside Mental Health NHS Trust | |
 Cherry Knowle Hospital | |
  Shown in Tyne and Wear | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Ryhope, Tyne and Wear, England |
| Coordinates | 54°51′37″N 1°22′24″W / 54.8603°N 1.3732°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | N/A |
| Speciality | Psychiatric Hospital |
| History | |
| Opened | 1895 |
| Closed | 1998 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in England |
History
editThe hospital was designed by George Thomas Hine using a Compact Arrow layout and construction began in 1893.[1] It was opened as the Sunderland Borough Asylum in 1895.[2] A villa block was added in 1902. Further development took place in the 1930s when an admissions hospital and convalescent villas were built.[1]
During the Second World War emergency medical service huts were established on the site: these were later developed to create Ryhope General hospital.[3]
The asylum joined the National Health Service as Cherry Knowle Hospital in 1948.[4] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1998.[2] The buildings were largely demolished in 2011[5] and the site is being redeveloped for residential use.[6]
The Hopewood Park mental health campus opened on the site in 2014.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b Henderson, Tony (27 January 2015). "Exhibition will mark history of Wearside mental care hospital Cherry Knowle". nechronicle.
- ^ a b "Cherry Knowle Hospital". County Asylums. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Sunderland hospital's 120 years of mental health care". Sunderland Echo. 11 February 2015. Archived from the original on 12 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Cherry Knowle Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Derelict buildings at Sunderland hospital demolished". BBC. 19 March 2011. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "Sunderland scheme could support 1300 jobs". Insider Media. 23 February 2017. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ "£50m patient-centred mental health unit opens in Sunderland". Building Better Healthcare. 2014.