Dingleton Hospital
| Dingleton Hospital | |
|---|---|
| File:Dingleton House (geograph 1951700).jpg The former Dingleton Hospital | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 411: Malformed coordinates value. | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Melrose, Scottish Borders, Scotland |
| Coordinates | Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS Scotland |
| Type | Psychiatric hospital |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| History | |
| Opened | 1872 |
| Closed | 2001 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Scotland |
.jpg){kind=link}
Dingleton Hospital was a mental health facility in Melrose, Scotland. The former boiler house is a Category B listed building.[1]
History
[edit | edit source]The hospital, which was designed by Brown & Wardrop, opened as the Roxburgh, Berwick and Selkirk District Asylum in May 1872.[2][3] A new female hospital block was completed in 1898 and two new wings, designed by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson, were completed in 1906.[2] The facility joined the National Health Service as Dingleton Hospital in 1948.[3] A monolithic concrete boiler house, designed by Peter Womersley, which still dominates the local skyline, was completed in 1977.[1]
After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 2001.[2] The main building has since been converted for residential use as "Dingleton Apartments" within a wider housing development across the former hospital site known as "Trimontium Heights".[4]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).