| York County Hospital | |
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 The third incarnation of the hospital was erected in Monkgate in 1851. | |
.svg)  Shown in North Yorkshire | |
| Geography | |
| Location | York,North Yorkshire,England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 53°57′46.9″N1°04′32″W / 53.963028°N 1.07556°W /53.963028; -1.07556 |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | PublicNHS |
| Type | General |
| History | |
| Opened | 1740 |
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| Lists | Hospitals in England |
York County Hospital (1740–1977) was a hospital inYork, England. The building, which isgrade II listed, has been converted for residential use.[1]
The hospital has its origins in a small hospital established in Monkgate in April 1740.[2] It moved to larger premises in Monkgate in 1745.[2]
According to one account,"the benevolent Lady Hastings, who, in the year 1749, bequeathed a legacy of £500, for the relief of the diseased poor in the county of York; which fund being augmented by other contributions, the present edifice was soon after erected."[3]
In 1840 there was a competition to design a new hospital and in 1851 the original (1745) building was demolished and replaced with a new building costing around £11,000 - £7,000 from subscriptions and £4,000 from existing funds. The new building was built behind the previous building and offered considerably more space, with one hundred beds. It was designed byJ. B. and W. Atkinson.[4]
In 1887, the hospital merged with the York Eye Institution which had been opened in 1875, but which was being rarely used.[5] A nurses’ home was built in 1905.[4]
York suffered a major attack on 29 April 1942, one of theBaedeker raids by theLuftwaffe. Many of the casualties, who would later go on to die, were treated at York County Hospital.[6][7]
In 1977 the hospital facilities moved toYork Hospital which had six hundred beds; the ante-natal clinic remained on-site until 1980. TheSainsbury's supermarket at Jewbury was then built while the hospital building, renamed County House, was used as the headquarters ofYorkshire Water before being converted for residential use.[8]
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