ASTON CUM AUGHTON
Swallownest Hospital (South Rotherham, Handsworth and Kiveton Park District Isolation Hospital) SK 454 860 102668
An isolation hospital was erected to the east of Aughton Road, north of Aston, some time in the 1890s or in 1900-1, comprising two separate buildings – presumably the ward block and accommodation for staff. By the early 1920s this had been replaced by a more substantial hospital with three ward blocks, separate staff accommodation, lodge and another ancillary building. The original ward block was demolished. A fourth ward block had been built by 1935.
The hospital was transferred to the NHS in 1948, initially continuing as an isolation hospital. It had been renamed ‘Swallownest Hospital’ by the early 1970s. Only minor alterations were made by the NHS – one ward block was demolished, the remaining three linked together by modest infill buildings and link corridors, and the lodge was extended. In the 1990s the site was redeveloped to provide a new mental health facility, named Swallownest Court, that was refurbished nd extended in 2011.
BARNSLEY
Barnsley Union Workhouse (St Helen Hospital) SE 332 070 102161 demolished
Barnsley Union Workhouse was built in 1852 to the north-west of the town and replaced an earlier workhouse on St Mary’s Place established in the 1730s. The architects of the new workhouse were Henry F. Lockwood and William Mawson, who also furnished designs for the workhouses at Bradford, Dewsbury, Kingston-upon-Hull, North Bierley and Penistone. A new workhouse infirmary was built to the south of the 1850s buildings in 1880-3, comprising two ward pavilions, one on each side of a central administration block. At the same time additions and alterations were made to the workhouse itself. Dixon nd Moxon of Barnsley were the architects. [Building News, 28 April 1882, p.521
Following the 1929 Local Government Act the workhouse and infirmary passed to the County Council. The infirmary was first renamed Barnsley Municipal Hospital but this was changed in 1935 to St Helen’s Hospital, and the workhouse section renamed ‘The Limes’, being largely a home for the elderly. After transfer to the NHS, a new district general hospital built on the site of the old workhouse (see below).
Barnsley General Hospital SE 332 070
Built as a District General Hospital on the site of the former workhouse and infirmary as part of the post-war reconstruction of acute hospital by the NHS as outlined in the government’s 1962 Hospital Plan for England and Wales. It follows the ‘matchbox on a muffin’ format comprising a multi-storey ward tower resting on a largely single-storey podium that contained out-patients’ department and ancillary services. It opened in 1977.
Beckett Hospital (Beckett Dispensary) SE 342 067 102159 mostly demolished
The Beckett Hospital had its origins in a dispensary founded by John Stainforth Beckett in 1862. Beckett was a retired banker and gave a plot of land on the west side of Church Lane as a site for the new dispensary that was named after him. He also gave an endowment of £5,000 and set up a board of trustees to manage the dispensary. It opened in March 1864. It was a domestic-looking three-bay, two-storey building in Italianate style. In 1872 it was extended and remodelled internally and began to admit in-patients. It consequently changed its name to the Beckett Hospital and Dispensary. A larger extension was added in 1883, providing 36 medical beds, and the out-patients’ department was improved. Around 1895 Robert Dixon designed an addition to house an operating room.
In 1900-2 a nurses’ home was built from funds gifted by Samual Joshua Cooper of Mount Vernon, Barnsley, for which R. & W. Dixon were the architects. It’s handsome three-storey, three-bay front has an ornate centrepiece with stone dressings, a tall oriel window over the arched front entrance, and an oculus in the gable (treated as a broken pediment. The corbels that support the oriel window bear a cartouche with Cooper’s monogram and the motto ‘Tout vient de dieu’. A deep cornice and tall chimneys, stone window surrounds and quoins also distinguish the red-brick building. In May 2023 the building was empty and up for sale.
Further extensions from 1902 included a children’s ward and a convalescents’ ward, and in 1907 the nurses’ home was extended to the rear, in similar style and with further funds from S. J. Cooper (this part has since been demolished). Then in 1908 funds were bequeathed by J. L. Marshall, of the Monk Bretton Colliery, that enabled the addition of a new wing – named after its benefactor – that was constructed in 1910-13. A further ward wing was added in 1926-8 at the north end of the nurses’ home, and in 1927-30 a new casualty and outpatients’ department was added, built to the north-east of the original dispensary. The nurses’ home was extended in 1938-40, with a wing on the west side.
The Beckett hospital was transferred to the NHS, but closed in 1977 when the new District General Hospital was opened. The nurses’ home and Marshall Wing were subsequently converted to offices of the Education Department of Barnsley metropolitan Borough Council, opening as such in 1981. The rest of the site was cleared for sheltered housing built in 1984-6 (Churchfields Close). More recently the all but the original section of the nurses’ home have been demolished to make way for Beckett Grange, a ‘retirement living development by McCathy Stone, completed in about 2020.
Kendray Hospital (Kendray Hospital for Infectious Diseases; Kendray Fever Hospital) SE 361 056 102157 partly demolished
The hospital is named after Francis Kendray, a linen manufacturer in Barnsley who died in 1840. His daughter, Mrs Ann Alderson-Lambert, gave £5,000 to the Town Council to establish the hospital in 1888 following an outbreak of smallpox in the area. She stipulated that it should be named after her father, and that the Corporation should provide the site. An 11-acre plot at Measborough Hill was purchased in January 1889, and the foundation stone laid a few months later. The architect was W. J. Morley of Morley and Woodhouse, with J. Henry Taylor the Borough Surveyor. It was brick-built in Queen Anne style dn comprised an administration block, a ward block comprising four wards, a circular smallpox ward for convalescent cases, and a mortuary with ambulance shed.
Additions were made to the hospital, with further detached ward blocks, including a cubicle isolation block in 1934. The hospital was transferred to the NHS in 1948 and by 1950 had begun to admit geriatric patients, and in 1958 the chronic sick. The need for separate isolation hospitals for infectious diseases waned after the Second World War with the development of vaccinations and antibiotics. Infectious cases were increasingly accommodated within general hospitals. In 1965 therefore the Kendray Hospital ceased to take infectious cases. Redevelopment of the hospital since 1982 involved the demolition of some of the original ward blocks, including the original circular smallpox ward. (See WikiTree for more on the history and a photograph of the circular ward block)
Lundwood Hospital (Barnsley Smallpox Hospital; Lundwood Smallpox Hospital) SE 380 071 102158 demolished
Although Barnsley had built a smallpox ward at Kendray Hospital in the 1890s the Town Council decided to build a separate hospital devoted entirely to smallpox cases rather than combining this most feared disease with other types of infectious diseases (most isolation hospitals at this time generally catered for measles, diphtheria and typhus). The site chosen was sufficiently remote from housing, on a hill to the south of Lundwood, to the east of Barnsley. The hospital was built in 1898-1900, plans being furnished by the Borough Surveyor, J. H. Taylor. It was constructed of brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. A single-storey entrance and discharge block stood at the north of the site, then centrally placed was a three-storey administration block which contained accommodation for nurses, domestic staff, offices and waiting room, kitchen etc.. To the south were the ward blocks. The hospital ws transferred to the NHS in 1948 and was used for the chronic sick and geriatric patients. It had closed in or before 1972 and the buildings demolished.
Mount Vernon Hospital (Barnsley and Wakefield Sanatorium) SE 349 048 102160 demolished
Mount Vernon Sanatorium was established by the County Borough of Barnsley in 1914 when the council purchased the Mount Vernon estate. The estate had been owned by S. J. Cooper, a local coal mine owner, who had died in 1913. The house had originally called Bank Top, renamed Mount Vernon around 1811 when it passed to the Wentworth family. The Borough Surveyor J. Henry Taylor prepared plans for a 30-bed ward pavilion in the grounds and the adaptation of the house for staff accommodation and offices, and the former stables coach house for stores and out-offices. It opened in 1915. Timber huts or chalets in the grounds provided shelters for the patients who underwent the usual open-air treatment for tuberculosis at that time.
Underground mine workings resulted in subsidence which damaged the sanatorium and led to its evacuation in 1952. Patients were sent to the former infectious diseases hospital at Wath-on-Dearne. Most of the buildings were demolished in 1955 and a geriatric hospital built on the site in 1958-61. It was renamed Mount Vernon Hospital, and continued in used until 2017. The site was cleared for a housing development in 2020.
BRIERLEY
Brierley Common Isolation Hospital (Hemsworth Infectious Diseases Hospital) SE 424 107 102162 largely or entirley demolished
Hemsworth Isolation Hospital was built by Hemsworth Rural District Council in 1901 to designs by T. H. Richardson, a local architect. It was a substantial hospital comprising at least three ward blocks and ancillary buildings. Additions and alterations in the 1930s included two new buildings, a nurses’ home and a further ward block. Part of the original hospital may have been incorporated in Burntwood Sports and Leisure Centre, built on the site in the 1980s, now part of a larger Burntwood Court Hotel complex.
CONISBROUGH
Conisbrough Hospital (Doncaster and Mexbrough Isolation Hospital; Conisbrough Isolation Hospital) SK 523 986 102148 demolished
Conisbrough Hospital was built in 1902-4 by the Doncaster and Mexborough Joint Hospital Board which had been established in 1900 in order to carry out the requirements of the 1893 Isolation Hospitals Act. The purpose-built hospital opened in 1904, superseding a temporary hospital that had been set up in 1899. The permanent hospital was designed by J. H. Morton of South Shields, appointed following a competition, and the building contractors were Harold Arnold & Son of Doncaster. It comprised an administration block, three separate ward blocks designated for scarlet fever, typhoid, and general isolation, a laundry and boiler house, mortuary, stable and ambulance sheds, a lodge and a discharging block.
It became a general hospital under the NHS, and was still functioning in the 1980s, but had closed by 1992. All but the porter’s lodge were demolished in the latter half of that year. The site has been developed for housing (Hereward Court, Saxon Row and Templestone Gate). [Further details and record photography of the site can be found at Historic England Archives in Building File 102148.]
Conisbrough Smallpox Hospital SE 529 990 demolished
Perhaps this originated with the temporary isolation hospital established in 1899 by the Doncaster and Mexborough Joint Board. The OS map of 1903 shows just the one ward block in the southern part of the site and the two small buildings to its south, marked as a hospital for contagious diseases. The site may have been developed as separate smallpox hospital once the new hospital on Crookhill Road had opened in 1904. The buildings were extant in the 1960s, though no longer in hospital use.
Fullerton Hospital, Denaby Main (now Fullerton House School) SK 498 993 102147
The cottage hospital in Denaby Main was built in 1904-5 to designs by H. L. Smethurst, architect of Conisbrough, with B. Wortley & Son, Doncaster, as building contractors. It was intended for the workmen of the Denaby and Cadeby Main Collieries, and was supported by weekly contributions from the employees. The site was the gift of J. S. H. Fullerton, after whom the hospital was named. When it opened, the hospital had just eight beds in one four-bed ward and two two-bed wards. An extension in 1924 increased the ward accommodation, and provided wards for women and children. In the 1930s further extensions were carried out, with financial contributions from teh Miners’ Welfare Fund, providing an out-patients’ department. The hospital transferred to the NHS, latterly as a minor injuries unit, and then from 1983 as a geriatric unit. In the late \80s or early ’90s it became a school for children with additional support needs.
DONCASTER
Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Armthorpe Road SE 591 041 102143
The earliest hospital buildings on this site date from the mid-1920s, when work began on a replacement for the Whitaker Street Infirmary built in 1865-6 (see below). Of the proposed 600-bed hospital designed by W. A. Pite, Son & Fairweather only a fraction was built in 1926-30 providing a double ward pavilion for 150 patients and a nurses’ home. To this was added an out-patients’ department in 1933-4 (Walker and Thompson architects). During the Second World War Emergency Medical Scheme hutted wards were erected on vacant ground to the south.
Post-war the hospital expanded under the NHS with a new district general hospital built in the 1960s, eastwards from the 1920s ward pavilions. It was designed in 1958, with Pite, Son and Fairweather as architects. The plans initially envisaged a ten-storey T-shpaed ward block, with offices, stores and ancillary services on the lower levels and the kitchens and dining-rooms on the top floor. It was to provide 485 beds, with ancillary departments in a separate diagnostic block, including a chest clinic. The 1920s buildings were replanned and the accommodation upgraded to provide 123 beds.
The plans seem to have been modified before work started around 1961. The 1960s hospital comprises an 8-storey ward tower, the 5-storey diagnostic, or out-patients block is at the south side of the main complex, and a rather attractive central laundry. They are of largely of reinforced concrete. Further infill development on the site with major additions has been carried out in the 1980s (including the Children’s Hospital in 1989) and ’90s.
Doncaster Royal Infirmary and Dispensary (Doncaster Infirmary and Dispensary; later Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council Offices) SE 576 031 102163 demolished
St Catherine’s Hospital (St Catherine’s Institution) SE 568 002 102145
Tickhill Road Hospital (Doncaster Isolation Hospital; Tickhill Road Infectious Diseases Hospital) SE 566 004 102146
Western Hospital (Doncaster Union Workhouse) SE 556 005 102164
ECCLESFIELD
Grenoside Grange Hospital (Wortley RDC Infectious Diseases Hospital) SK 334 935 102713
MEXBOROUGH
Montagu Hospital SE 475 006 102144
PENISTONE
Penistone Union Workhouse SE 244 039 100850
RAWMARSH
Rose Hill Hospital (Rawmarsh UDC Isolation Hospital; Rose Hill Isolation Hospital) SK 437 971 102154
ROTHERHAM
Badsley Moor Lane Hospital (Rotherham Isolation Hospital; Badsley Moor Lane Infectious Diseases Hospital) SK 444 928 102I52
Badsley Moor Lane Sanatorium (Rotherham Smallpox Hospital; Badsley Moor Lane Fever Hospital) SK 447 928 102156
Doncaster Gate Hospital (Rotherham Hospital and Dispensary; Rotherham Hospital) SK 431 928 102151
Moorgate General Hospital (Rotherham Union Workhouse; Alma Road Institution) SK 430 922 102150
Rotherham District General Hospital (Oakwood Hall; Oakwood Hall Hospital; Oakwood Hall Sanatorium) SK 436 909 102149
SHEFFIELD
Children’s Hospital SK 340 872 102226
Crimcar Lane Hospital SK296 861 102667
Jessop Hospital for Women SK345 873 102228
King Edward VII Orthopaedic Hospital (King Edward VII Memorial Institution for Crippled Children) SK296 875 102224
Lodge Moor Hospital (Borough Smallpox Hospital) SK 287 860 102227
Middlewood Hospital (South Yorkshire Lunatic Asylum; Wadsley Hospital) SK 320 914 102230
Nether Edge Hospital (Eccleshall Bierlow Union Workhouse; Eccleshall Institution) SK 337 849 102229
Northern General Hospital (Sheffield Union Workhouse) SK 362 907 102225
Royal Hallamshire Hospital (Royal Sheffield Infirmary and Hospital) SK 338 870 102470
St George’s Hospital (Borough Hospital for Infectious Diseases; City Hospital) SK 341 876 102231
Sheffield Royal Hospital (Sheffield Public Dispensary; Sheffield Public Hospital and Dispensary) SK 349 871 102441
Sheffield Royal Infirmary (Sheffield General Infirmary) SK 347 882 102440
Whiteley Wood Clinic (Woofindin Convalescent Home; Whiteley Wood Hospital) SK 307 852 102232
THORNE
Thorne Union Workhouse SE 682 132 102155
WATH UPON DEARNE
Wathwood Hospital (Wath, Swinton and District Infectious Diseases Hospital; Wath Wood Hospital) SK 436 993 102153