Information about this hospital might be outdated.
Details
Previous Names
Norwich City Asylum (1880 - ?)
Norwich City Mental Hospital (by 1929 - 1948)
Norwich Pauper Asylum (1828 - 1830)
Address
Drayton High Road, Hellesdon, Norwich, NR6 5BE
Previous Locations
Outside St Augustine's Gates, Parish of St Clement, Norwich (1828 - 1880)
Current Trust
Norfolk Mental Health Care NHS Trust (since 1994)
Foundation Year
1828
Status
Open
Administrative Authorities
Regional Board (1948-1974)
East Anglian
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Norwich Mental Ii
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
East Anglian
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
East Anglian
District Authority (1974-1982)
Norwich
District Authority (Post-1982)
Norwich
Pre-1974 County
Norfolk
Post-1974 County
Norfolk
Post-1996 County
Norfolk
Status
Pre-1948
Local Authority, Poor Law
Pre-1948 information
LA: 1864 - 1948 Norwich City Pauper Lunatic Asylum Committee.
Poor Law Infirmary: 1828 - 1864 Norwich Incorporation of Guardians of Poor / Poor Law Union.
Post-1948
NHS
Type
Pre-1948
Mental
Post-1948
Mental
Post-1948 information
MNT: Mental illness.
Other information
After 1864 the hospital was administered by a Pauper Lunatic Asylum Committee, later known as the Borough Asylum Committee, the City Asylum Committee, the Mental Hospital Visiting Committee and the Mental Treatment Committee.
Norwich Incorporation of Guardians of Poor / Poor Law Union.
Assylum was erected in 1828 on land adjoining the workhouse Infimary outside St Augustine's Gates in Parish of St Clements, Norwich. Although the Infirmary moved to the new Workhouse site at Bowthorpe Road, Heigham, in 1859, the Asylum remained in its old location until 1880 when the new Norwich City Asylum was opened in Hellesdon. the new Asylum accepted patients from the Boroughs of King's Lynn and Great Yarmouth as well as the City of Norwich.
At Repository (AR), National Register of Archives (NRA)
Details
AR: CAT: MH.
AR; See also Norwich Quarter Sessions. See also Pauper Lunatic, Borough, and City Asylum Committees, Mental Hospital Visiting and Mental Treatment Committees, of Norwich City.