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City of London Asylum

Stone House Hospital
Date founded: 1862
Date opened: 16.4.1866
Date closed: 2005 (in progress)
Address/location: Cotton Lane , Stone, near Dartford , Kent
Architect(s): James Bunstone Bunning, Surveyor to the City of London
Additions by Andrew Murray, 1901
Layout: Corridor plan. Female blocks to east.
History:
Constructed following the Commissioners of Lunacy's insistence that the city of London provided its own asylum for pauper lunatics, who had previously been sent to Bethlem Asylum in Lambeth. The Commissioners discouraged the use of voluntary asylums for pauper patients and despite the low number of such patients in the City area, a site at Stone, near Dartford was purchased and the building erected for 220 patients. Declining numbers of pauper admissions led to excess space being used to take out of area cases and later private, fee paying patients (from 1892). The renumerative nature of this work allowed further additions around the turn of the century.
From 1924 the asylum was renamed the City of London Mental Hospital, then later became Stone House hospital on transferral to the National Health Service in 1948. Prior to transferral to NHS over half of the population of nearly 600, were private patients. Only 50 patients were actually from the City of London , with the remainder coming from other authorities. The hospital catchment area later took in local patients, from Dartford and Gravesend districts. In the late 1980's the grounds to the north east of the site alongside Bow Arrow Lane were developed as Learning disabilities villas to accelerate the closure of the nearby Darenth Park Hospital.
Site development:
The original asylum building comprised of the administration building to the north, with workshops, boiler house and main stores to the west, and laundry and sewing room to the east to the east. The south front was occupied by the recreation hall combined with chapel above, flanked by male and female ward blocks. Between the administration block and hall stands the prominent round water tower. The hospital cemetery was located on the north side of Bow Arrow Lane . Later additions included an isolation hospital (known as the cottage hospital) at the corner of Cotton and Bow Arrow Lanes, followed by a new detached chapel opposite the admin block consecrated in May 1901. Further additions consisted of enlarged laundry and workshop developments combined with a laundry workers block all on the west side of the main complex. Two single storey sick and infirm wards were also built at either end of the South frontage. A nurses accommodation block was added during 1909-10. Close to this, further staff accommodation was constructed around 1975.
Current status:
Main hospital, chapel, service blocks, and staff accommodation survive largely unaltered but run down. Archery House unit developed on land to the north (this provided some accommodation for Darenth Park relocated patients
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City of London Asylum

Stone House Hospital
Date founded: 1862
Date opened: 16.4.1866
Date closed: 2005 (in progress)
Address/location: Cotton Lane , Stone, near Dartford , Kent
Architect(s): James Bunstone Bunning, Surveyor to the City of London
Additions by Andrew Murray, 1901
Layout: Corridor plan. Female blocks to east.
History:
Constructed following the Commissioners of Lunacy's insistence that the city of London provided its own asylum for pauper lunatics, who had previously been sent to Bethlem Asylum in Lambeth. The Commissioners discouraged the use of voluntary asylums for pauper patients and despite the low number of such patients in the City area, a site at Stone, near Dartford was purchased and the building erected for 220 patients. Declining numbers of pauper admissions led to excess space being used to take out of area cases and later private, fee paying patients (from 1892). The renumerative nature of this work allowed further additions around the turn of the century.
From 1924 the asylum was renamed the City of London Mental Hospital, then later became Stone House hospital on transferral to the National Health Service in 1948. Prior to transferral to NHS over half of the population of nearly 600, were private patients. Only 50 patients were actually from the City of London , with the remainder coming from other authorities. The hospital catchment area later took in local patients, from Dartford and Gravesend districts. In the late 1980's the grounds to the north east of the site alongside Bow Arrow Lane were developed as Learning disabilities villas to accelerate the closure of the nearby Darenth Park Hospital.
Site development:
The original asylum building comprised of the administration building to the north, with workshops, boiler house and main stores to the west, and laundry and sewing room to the east to the east. The south front was occupied by the recreation hall combined with chapel above, flanked by male and female ward blocks. Between the administration block and hall stands the prominent round water tower. The hospital cemetery was located on the north side of Bow Arrow Lane . Later additions included an isolation hospital (known as the cottage hospital) at the corner of Cotton and Bow Arrow Lanes, followed by a new detached chapel opposite the admin block consecrated in May 1901. Further additions consisted of enlarged laundry and workshop developments combined with a laundry workers block all on the west side of the main complex. Two single storey sick and infirm wards were also built at either end of the South frontage. A nurses accommodation block was added during 1909-10. Close to this, further staff accommodation was constructed around 1975.
Current status:
Main hospital, chapel, service blocks, and staff accommodation survive largely unaltered but run down. Archery House unit developed on land to the north (this provided some accommodation for Darenth Park relocated patients
info off county asylums
4e3ec674.jpg


703b4ede.jpg


f36f2652.jpg


cc0f46c8.jpg


c2d8e91f.jpg


9e6f3329.jpg


3ce8c8e6.jpg


88fc2bf9.jpg


0033b3f2.jpg


92c63cd9.jpg


6cfc07ef.jpg


d0d93775.jpg


8951b0b2.jpg


9d3604a4.jpg


17063878.jpg


8a163a15.jpg


c8a76cef.jpg


82686128.jpg


adcef6bf.jpg


debe3ebf.jpg


1e832d34.jpg


3c969d71.jpg


349aa819.jpg
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