Warneford Hospital

Coordinates: 51°45′03″N 1°13′21″W / 51.75083°N 1.22250°W

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Warneford Hospital
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Warneford Hospital
Shown in Oxfordshire
Geography
Location	Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°45′03″N 1°13′21″W / 51.75083°N 1.22250°W / 51.75083; -1.22250
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Type	Teaching
Affiliated university	University of Oxford
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
Beds	104
History
Opened	1826
Links
Website	http://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Lists	Hospitals in England

The Warneford Hospital is a hospital providing mental health services at Headington in east Oxford, England.^[1] It is managed by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

History

The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826.^[2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone.^[3] The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford.^[4] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843^[2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877.^[3]

The hospital originally charged fees for treatment of middle-class patients with a fund eventually being set up for the care of poor patients. Men and women were originally segregated on different sides of the hospital with this practice continuing into the 1950s.^[5]

Notable staff

Anthony Storr, teaching post, 1974-84^[6]

Notable patients

Stephen Bernard, academic and writer^[7]
Jennifer Dawson, novelist^[8]

References

^ Hibbert, Christopher, ed. (1988). "Warnford Hospital". The Encyclopaedia of Oxford. Macmillan. pp. 491–492. ISBN 0-333-39917-X.
^ ^a ^b "Warneford Hospital, Oxford". National Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
^ ^a ^b Historic England. "Warneford Hospital (1245464)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1899). "Warneford, Samuel Wilson" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ "Warneford". Oxford Archives. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
^ Stevens, Anthony (20 March 2001). "Obituary: Anthony Storr". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
^ Parkinson, Hannah Jane (11 February 2018). "Fire on All Sides and Paper Cuts review – forensic accounts of surviving child rape". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2024.
^ Pattulio, Polly (26 October 2000). "Jennifer Dawson". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 December 2024.

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