| 词条 | Fairfield Hospital, Bedfordshire | |||
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| Name = Fairfield Hospital | Org/Group = | Image = Fairfield Hospital Main Block.jpg | image alt = | Caption = Fairfield Hospital | map_type = Bedfordshire | map_caption = Shown in Bedfordshire | latitude = | longitude = | Logo = | Logo Size = | Location = Fairfield Park | Country = UK | Coordinates = {{coord|52.00219|N|0.2478|W|type:landmark_region:GB|display=inline, title}} | HealthCare = NHS | Funding = Public | Type = Psychiatric | Speciality = | Standards = | Emergency = No | Affiliation = | Patron = | Network = | Beds = | Founded = 1860 | Closed = 1999 | Website = | Wiki-Links = }}Fairfield Hospital in Fairfield Park, Bedfordshire, England was a psychiatric hospital from 1860 to 1999. It is a Grade II listed building.[1] HistoryConstruction of The Stotfold Three Counties Asylum by William Webster on a {{convert|253|acre|km2|sing=on}} site between Letchworth, Arlesey and Stotfold commenced in 1856. The new hospital replaced the Bedford Lunatic Asylum in Ampthill Road in Bedford, which had been built in 1812. The Fairfield Hospital was designed by George Fowler Jones with the longest corridor in the United Kingdom, at half a mile long. The clay for its bricks came from the nearby Arlesey Pits. The hospital, which catered for patients from Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Huntingdonshire, opened with the transfer of 6 male and 6 female patients from Bedford Lunatic Asylum on 8 March 1860.[2][3] By 1861 the number of patients had expanded to 460, with 248 female and 212 male patients. At this time the asylum employed about 256 local people from the surrounding villages, including 66 men in its garden and small farm, where produce for the asylum's kitchen was grown, and 33 women in the laundry and wash house. The Chapel and cemetery were added in 1879, with the East stained-glass window being added in 1920 in memory of the asylum's staff and former inmates who lost their lives in the First World War.[3] During and after that War the asylum treated male and female patients suffering from shell shock.[3] Following the enactment of the Mental Treatment Act 1930 the Three Counties Asylum became known as the Three Counties Hospital. At its height in 1936 Fairfield Hospital catered for 1,100 patients, with the grounds of the hospital having increased to {{convert|410|acre|km2}} through the purchase of additional farm land. Of these 410 acres 385 were cultivated.[3] In 1948 The Three Counties Hospital became part of the National Health Service, and, in 1960, it was renamed Fairfield Hospital.[3] In that year Fairfield Hospital hit the national headlines when the hospital's chaplain, the Reverend John Arthur Monk, married a girl forty years younger than himself in the hospital's chapel.[3] In 1981 the Conservative Government published its 'Care in the Community' report. Its aim was a more liberal way of helping people with mental health problems, by removing them from impersonal, often Victorian institutions, such as Fairfield Hospital, and caring for them in their own homes. Also, better drugs became available so that patients could be treated at home. It was also meant to reduce the cost of institutionalizing so many mentally ill people. This Act led to the closure of many psychiatric hospitals including Fairfield Hospital, which finally closed in 1999.[3] The main building with its water towers is Grade II listed, the façade having been restored and its interior being converted into flats and a health club and renamed Fairfield Hall. The grounds have also been developed into housing. The whole redevelopment of the hospital site and grounds constitutes a village called Fairfield Park, which became a civil parish in 2013.[4] In the mediaMy Turn to Make the Tea, the 1951 semi-autobiographical novel by Monica Dickens, features Fairfield Hospital as the Northgate Asylum. The 2003 film Requiem starring Jason Connery was filmed at Fairfield Hospital.[5]See also
GalleryReferences1. ^{{NHLE| num= 1113869|desc=Fairfield Hospital, Stotfold |accessdate=28 September 2018}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128213829/http://www.countyasylums.com/mentalasylums/fairfield01.htm |title=Fairfield Hospital|publisher=County Asylums|accessdate=28 September 2018}} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304014900/http://homepage.ntlworld.com/frank.cooke/fairfield.htm|title= The Three Counties Asylum|publisher=Frank Cooke|accessdate=28 September 2018}} 4. ^{{cite web| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112042609/https://www.lgbce.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/23098/Bulletin-of-changes-to-local-authority-arrangements-v3-FINAL.pdf|title=Bulletin of change to local authority arrangements, areas and names in England|publisher= Lgbce|accessdate = 2 March 2018}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607110521/http://www.zone-sf.com/requiem.html |title=Review of 'Requiem'|year= 2003|publisher=The Zone|accessdate=28 September 2018}} Further reading
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10 : Former psychiatric hospitals in England|Hospital buildings completed in 1860|Hospitals in Bedfordshire|History of Bedfordshire|Defunct hospitals in England|Buildings and structures in Bedfordshire|Grade II listed buildings in Bedfordshire|Hospitals established in 1860|Hospitals disestablished in 1999|History of mental health in the United Kingdom |
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