St. Matthew's Hospital

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St. Matthew's Hospital
Opened 1865
Closed 1995
Demolished 1999
Current Status Demolished
Building Style Corridor Plan
Architect(s) William Moffatt
Location Burntwood
Alternate Names
  • Staffordshire County Pauper Lunatic Asylum
  • Burntwood Mental Hospital
  • St Matthews Mental Hospital



History[edit]

One of the three county asylums was opened in Burntwood in 1864, later called St Matthews Hospital. Between 1940 and 1947 there was an emergency hospital on the same site. Its earliest patients were sick and wounded soldiers from the Dunkirk evacuation.