Cheadle Royal Hospital

Hospital in Greater Manchester, England

53°22′29″N 2°13′16″W / 53.3748°N 2.2211°W / 53.3748; -2.2211OrganisationCare systemPrivateTypeSpecialistServicesEmergency departmentNoSpecialityMental HealthHistoryOpened1763

Cheadle Royal Hospital is a psychiatric hospital in Heald Green, Greater Manchester, England, built between 1848 and 1849. The main building is Grade II listed.^[1]

History

The hospital was founded at a time when only two other similar institutions existed in England (Bethlem and St Luke's)^[2] and was initially located next to the Manchester Infirmary in 1763.^[3] It was designed by Richard Lane in the Elizabethan style^[1] and it opened as the Manchester Lunatic Hospital in 1766.^[2] It had 24 beds when it opened, but had over 100 patients by 1800.^[2]

The facility relocated to Cheadle, 10 miles (16 km) to the south, as the Manchester Royal Hospital for the Insane, in 1849.^[2] Voluntary patients, known as boarders, were admitted from 1863.^[2] The hospital expanded through the construction of villas on the Cheadle site in the 1860s and through the acquisition of houses in Colwyn Bay in the 1870s.^[2] The site in Cheadle was initially 37 acres (15 ha); in the following 80 years about 220 acres (89 ha) were added and the original part of the site subsequently became formal gardens and sport and recreation grounds. A convalescent hospital at Glan-y-Don, Colwyn Bay, was also established.^[4]

The facility became Cheadle Royal Hospital in 1902^[2] and North House, with accommodation for 80 additional patients, was opened in 1903.^[5] It had provision for the treatment of 400 patients in 1928^[6] but it chose to remain private rather than joining the National Health Service in 1948.^[2] The hospital was acquired by its management team in 1997 and then by Priory Group in 2010.^[7]

Famous patients

Famous patients have included:

Johnny Briggs, cricketer^[8]
Margot Bryant, actress^[9]
Arthur Ransome, children's writer and journalist^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b Historic England. "Cheadle Royal Hospital (1001337)". National Heritage List for England.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Cheadle Royal Hospital". Manchester Medical Collection. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
^ "Cheadle Royal Hospital". National Archives. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
^ The Book of Manchester and Salford; for the British Medical Association. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; pp. 146-47
^ Brockbank, William (1952). Portrait of a Hospital. London: William Heinemann. pp. 116–164.
^ The Book of Manchester and Salford...for the...annual meeting of the British Medical Association...1929. Manchester: George Falkner & Sons, 1929; p. 146-47
^ "Cheadle Royal sold to Priory in Affinity deal". Business Desk. 18 January 2010. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
^ Owen, W. B. (1912). "Briggs, John" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Margot Bryant at IMDb
^ Brogan, Hugh (1984). The Life of Arthur Ransome. Jonathan Cape. p. 433.