1883 - Birmingham Eye Hospital, Birmingham, UK
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N 52° 28.943 W 001° 54.027
30U E 574669 N 5815260
An early Victorian brick building, formerly the Birmingham Eye hospital and now the Hotel De Vin.
Waymark Code: WM5JMG
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/14/2009
Views: 13
Founded 1823 by Joseph Hodgson, Eye Surgeon at The Eye Institution, Cannon Street. Later moved to Steelhouse Lane and then Temple Row. Moved yet again in 1884 to Church Street before finally being relocated to City Hospital, Dudley Road in 1996.
The Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital was first established in Cannon Street in 1824, and subsequently transferred in 1853 to premises in Steelhouse Lane, purchased for £1,900; in 1862 other buildings in Temple Street were bought and adapted at a cost of £8,217 for the reception of 45 patients; but these proving still inadequate, an entirely new Hospital was erected in 1884 in Church Street, with frontages to Edmund Street and Barwick Street, at a cost, including fittings, of about £20,000, and available for 70 in patients, and the Hospital was opened Thursday 24 July 1884, by Lady Leigh.
The building designed in the Franco-Italian style, is four storeys in height, with ornamental dormers above the cornice; in the centre of the principle front is a spacious rusticated portico, the bay over which rises into a lofty gable, and at the angles are slightly projecting towers.
There is an operating theatre and pathological laboratory and recovery room. The number of in patients treated during the twelve months ending March, 1898, was 1,140, and of out patients 24,440; an average of 177 out patients were attended to daily.
The Hospital was extended in 1895, by the erection of a new wing on a site required for that purpose in 1894; this addition includes childrens wards, day room, bath room, nurses room &c., and the Hospital in 1900 was available for 105 in patients.
Year of construction: 1883
Full inscription:
1883. The Birmingham and Midland Eye Hospital founded 1823
Cross-listed waymark: Not listed
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