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Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse

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Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse is located in Devon
Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse
Location within Devon
Coordinates50°22′20″N 4°09′29″W / 50.3722°N 4.1580°W / 50.3722; -4.1580
Site history
Built1758-1765
Built forWar Office
In use1765-1995

The Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse was a medical facility for naval officers and other ranks at Stonehouse, Plymouth.

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History

The main quadrangle (now flats).

The naval hospital was built between 1758 and 1765 to a design by the little-known Alexander Rovehead.[1] The design was influential in its time:[2] its pattern of detached wards (arranged so as to maximise ventilation and minimise spread of infection) foreshadows the 'pavilion' style of hospital building which was popularised by Florence Nightingale a century later.[3] The site for the hospital was formerly known as the mill fields (after the nearby tide mills on Stonehouse Creek).[4] Towards the end of the century, Stoke Military Hospital was built by the Army, facing the naval hospital directly across the creek.[5]

The hospital closed in 1995; it is now a gated residential complex called The Millfields.[6] The site contains over 20 listed buildings and structures.[7]

Description

An 18th-century engraving of 'His Majesty's New Royal Hospital Building, near Plymouth'.

The hospital housed 1,200 patients in sixty wards, its ten ward blocks being arranged around a courtyard with a central block containing the chapel, dispensary and staff housing. Patients were landed directly from Stonehouse Creek (now playing fields) where the remains of a jetty can still be seen, flanked by stone steps which formerly descended into the creek; from here an entrance arch led to receiving wards (with a bath room and a clothing store) where new arrivals were washed and provided with clean bedclothes.[8] Until the mid-1790s there was no separate operating theatre in the hospitals; surgery was performed in the wards (much to the 'offence' of other patients, according to contemporary reports).[8] Later, an operating room was set up in one of the four single-story blocks which interspersed the ward blocks on the north and south side of the quadrangle (these fulfilled various roles over the course of the hospital's history, including serving at times, variously, as a cookhouse, a victualling room, a smallpox ward and a lunatic ward).[8]

West of the main quadrangle, facing the central block with its cupola, Rovehead built a pedimented terrace of houses, providing accommodation for senior officials (the surgeon, the physician, the steward and the agent),[9] beyond which were stables[10] and houses for two clerks.[11] Later, following the appointment of a Governor to the hospital in 1795, a pair of larger houses were built, facing each other either side of the terrace so as to create a smaller quadrangle;[12] Directly opposite the water gate (with its jetty) was the main entrance from the street, which was flanked by a pair of lodges which provided accommodation for officers of the Royal Marine detachment which provided a guard for the Hospital;[13] the Marines themselves were accommodated in a small barracks just outside the gate, similar in design to the nearby (and near-contemporary) Stonehouse Royal Marine Barracks.[14] Later, police took over guard duty, and the barracks became a police station.[8] A water tower on the edge of the site provided a pressured supply to the wards and to water closets around the site: an early example of a pressurised water sanitation system.[15]

In 1826 a burial ground was established on a parcel of land to the north-east of the hospital site, and a gate was opened in the boundary wall (by the water tower) to provide access; later a mortuary chapel was built, just inside the gate.[4] A new hospital chapel was provided in 1883 with the dedication Church of the Good Shepherd, placed east of the main quadrangle on the main east-west axis.[16] At around the same time, the wash house on the northern edge of the site was expanded to serve as a laundry, with the addition of a sizeable boiler house alongside. A significant expansion of facilities within the site took place from 1898-1906, with the addition of a sick officers' quarters beyond the chapel, staff quarters alongside it, a row of four zymotic ward blocks just north-east of the main quadrangle and a new dispensary (along with a house for the chief pharmacist) near the water gate.[4] All these were built using distinctive yellow brick, which contrasts with the Plymouth limestone of the earlier buildings on the site.[4]

References

  1. ^ Historic England. "Royal Naval Hospital  (437649)". Research records (formerly PastScape). Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  2. ^ Revell, Surgeon Vice Admiral A. (28 June 1996). "History of the Royal Naval Hospitals" (PDF). The History of Anaesthesia Society proceedings. p. 86. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  3. ^ Historic England. "Former Royal Naval Hospital, the Quadrangle Centre, the Quadrangle Centre Creykes, Gordon, Fellowes, Lyster and Sandon Court, the Quadrangle Centre Evans, Hornby, Dudding, Pryn and Norbury Court (1113296)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d "Millfields Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan" (PDF). Plymouth City Council. Retrieved 31 July 2019.
  5. ^ The Picture of Plymouth. London: Rees & Curtis. 1812. p. 135.
  6. ^ "Introduction". Millfields. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  7. ^ Historic England (search results)
  8. ^ a b c d Coad, Jonathan (2013). Support for the Fleet. Swindon: English Heritage. pp. 363–366.
  9. ^ Historic England Grade II listing: Former Royal Naval Hospital: The Square Nos.4-7
  10. ^ Historic England Grade II listing: Former Royal Naval Hospital Stables
  11. ^ Historic England Grade II listing: Former Royal Naval Hospital: The Square Nos.11, 12 & 13
  12. ^ Historic England Grade II listing: Former Royal Naval Hospital: The Square Nos.8 & 9
  13. ^ Historic England Grade II listing: Former Royal Naval Hospital: The Square No.16
  14. ^ Historic England Grade II listing: Former Royal Naval Hospital: The Square No.17
  15. ^ Historic England Grade II* listing: Former Royal Naval Hospital: Water Tower
  16. ^ Historic England Grade II listing: Former Royal Naval Hospital: The Church of the Good Shepherd
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