Chewy's Urban Exploration - Lancaster Moor Asylum.

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Lancaster Moor Asylum
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Location - Quenmore Road, Lancaster, Lancashire.
Architects - Thomas Standen (1816) AV Kershaw (1882).
Asylum Layout Design - Early Corridor Plan.
Alternative Names - Lancaster Asylum, Moor Hospital and Ridge Lea Hospital.

The County Lunatic Asylum on Lancaster Moor opened in 1816, and since enlarged.
It is a stately quadrangular building of stone, with a handsome front, relieved by pillars of the Doric order.
The hospital held approximatley 2,400 patients (Circa 1913).
It was then carried on to become the main NHS A&E department for Lancaster up until 1999.

The annexe was completed in 1882 at a cost of £125,000, and occupies an area of about 41 acres.
The buildings are constructed of stone, and over the main entrance is a spectacular clock tower of about 100 feet in height.
There are also smaller ones at the front extremity of each wing.
The building also includes a grand dining hall of 120 feet long by 60 feet wide and 60 feet in height.

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