St Crispin's Hospital
{{Short description|Former psychiatric facility in England}}
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| Founded = 1876
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St Crispin's Hospital was a large psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Duston village in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England. It was established Northampton Mental Hospital in 1876 and closed in 1995. The site has since been redeveloped for residential use with a small mental health unit still remaining there.
History
Work started on the hospital in 1873.{{cite web|url=https://www.countyasylums.co.uk/st-crispinduston/|title=St Crispin's Hospital|publisher=County Asylum's|accessdate=19 October 2018}} It was designed by Robert Griffiths using a corridor layout and opened as the Northampton Mental Hospital in 1876. Additional blocks for children with mental health difficulties and for epileptics were completed in 1887. It served as a military hospital during the First World War and after the war it became Northampton Mental Hospital.{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=2573|title=St Crispin Hospital, Northampton|publisher=National Archives|accessdate=19 April 2019}} It had joined the National Health Service in 1948 and two female patient villas were completed in 1954.
The hospital was used as a filming location in the 1977 series of Doctor Who, in a six-part story called The Talons of Weng-Chiang. The mortuary was used to represent a Victorian operating theatre.{{cite news|url=http://www.doctorwholocations.net/locations/stcrispinshospital|title=Doctor Who Locations - St. Crispin's Hospital|date=13 November 2007|accessdate=23 August 2010|publisher=Doctor Who Locations}}
Following the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1995.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-28787626 |title=Three arrests over hospital site fire in Northampton |publisher=BBC |date=14 August 2014|accessdate=19 October 2018}} The children's block and the superintendents' house were developed by Taylor Wimpey for residential use between 2005 and 2008{{cite web|url=https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/developers-finally-submit-plans-to-convert-fire-ravaged-hospital-near-duston-into-homes-1-7178907|title=Developers finally submit plans to convert fire-ravaged hospital near Duston into homes|publisher=Northampton Chronicle and Echo|date=25 January 2016|accessdate=19 October 2018}} and a small area was applied for the construction of Berrywood Hospital, a modern mental health facility.{{cite news|url=http://www.thetimechamber.co.uk/Sites/Hospital/StCrispinHospital/StCrispinHospital.php|title=Northamptonshire County Asylum- St Crispin's Hospital|publisher=The Time Chamber|accessdate=23 August 2010}}
In August 2014, over 80 Firefighters responded to an emergency call as a large fire broke out. One of the buildings was also seriously damaged in March 2015 after it was set on fire by arsonists.{{cite web|url=https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/police-issue-danger-warning-on-former-st-crispin-s-hospital-site-in-northampton-1-6683196 |title=Police issue danger warning on former St Crispin's Hospital site in Northampton|publisher=Northampton Chronicle and Echo |date=10 April 2015|accessdate=19 October 2018}}
Gallery
St Crispins main hall.jpg|The Main Hall held up with scaffolding after a major fire
St Crispins Asylum Fire damaged Main Hall.JPG|The Main Hall and Clock Tower
Stripped out Wards.jpg|The ward blocks have been stripped of most of their original features
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Category:Hospital buildings completed in 1876
Category:Defunct hospitals in England
Category:Former psychiatric hospitals in England