Hospital
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Parkside Hospital was built in 1868-1871 as a County Lunatic Asylum for the accommodation of pauper lunatics, because the County asylum at Upton had insufficient accommodation. The Court of Quarter Sessions appointed a Committee in 1865 to advise on the need for a new asylum, then to select a site and then to erect an asylum in the north of the County. The Asylum was erected under the supervision and to the plans of Robert Griffiths, architect. The building was originally designed to accommodate 700 patients, but, as a result of extensive new building works, including an isolation hospital (1896), admission hospital (1905), 'Uplands' for private patients (1913) and a major new group of villas in 1938, the total accommodation rose to over 1500. The name was changed from County Asylum to County Mental Hospital c.1920. It is now (1991) a psychiatric/mental illness hospital with 450 beds. It was closed 1996/7. See David A Broadhurst, A History of Parkside Hospital Macclesfield 1871-1996