Newcastle, Hanover Square, Children's Hospital

HER Number:
11282

District:
Newcastle

Site Name:
Newcastle, Hanover Square, Children's Hospital

Place:
Newcastle

Map Sheet:
NZ26SW

Class:
Health and Welfare

Site Type: Broad:
Specialist Hospital

Site Type: Specific:
Childrens Hospital

General Period:
Early Modern

Specific Period:
C19

Form of Evidence:
Demolished Building

Description:
Newcastle's first children's hospital, opened in 1863. Proved to be inadequate. Closed after John Fleming built a new children's hospital in Jesmond (HER 9055). A house is shown on the site Oliver's 1830 map, which may have been owned or occupied by John Steavenson, lessee of the Trustees of the Baptist Chapel, Tuthill Stairs (HER 6685). The OS 1896 10 feet = 1 mile map shows the hospital as a long narrow building running from the edge of the pavement back to a property boundary coming north from the Close. A warehouse was built on the site in 1903.

Easting:
2493

Northing:
6377

Grid Reference:
NZ24936377

Lats/Lons:

Sources:
Newcastle Local Studies Library, Jesmond Folder, Fleming Hospital, page 193; Barbara Harbottle, 1980, 'Robinson's Warehouse, Clavering Place', note in the HER