Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Horrington near Wells
Mendip Hospital opened in 1848 as the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum at Horrington, near Wells, in the English county of Somerset.
The hospital was established as a county asylum for pauper lunatics, under the County Asylums Act 1808, following campaigns by Sir Edwin Chadwick and the work of the Poor Law Commission and opened in 1848.
The buildings were designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt. It was built at a cost of £38,000 by Kirk of Sleaford. The first patients were brought to the hospital from local workhouses.
George Gilbert Scott was a formidable architect responsible for a number of famous buildings and the famous Red Telephone Box.
https://gilbertscott.org/category/scott-dynasty/
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