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Details
Previous Names
Steyning Workhouse Infirmary (1835 - 1930)
Steyning Institution (1930 - c.1940)
Address
Upper Shoreham Road, Shoreham-By-Sea, BN43 6TQ
Previous Locations
New Shoreham (1835 - 1901)
Current Trust
Worthing and Southlands Hospitals NHS Trust (since 1994)
Foundation Year
1835
Status
Open
Administrative Authorities
Regional Board (1948-1974)
South West Metropolitan
Management Committee (1948-1974)
Worthing, Southlands and District
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
South West Thames
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
South West Thames
District Authority (1974-1982)
Worthing
District Authority (Post-1982)
Worthing District
Pre-1974 County
Sussex
Post-1974 County
West Sussex
Post-1996 County
West Sussex
Status
Pre-1948
Local Authority, Poor Law
Pre-1948 information
PLI: ? - 1930.
LA: 1930 - 1948.
Post-1948
NHS
Type
Pre-1948
General
Post-1948
Acute
Other information
On the establishment of Steyning Union under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 a workhouse was built in New Shoreham. The union included parishes in East and West Sussex and the growth of population in its coastal areas meant that, despite much additional building, an enlarged site was required by the 1890s. The first part of the new building in Kingston was opened in 1901 and the infirmary was added five years later. On the abolition of Boards of Guardians in 1929 the Steyning Public Assistance Institution and Southlands Hospital, as the successor institutions were called, came under the control of East Sussex County Council. A large children's home was attached to the workhouse and institution. In 1948 the hospital became part of the National Health Service.