The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (St Andrew's Hospital)

Image: © Evelyn Simak Taken: 12 Feb 2018

The East Lodge beside the entrance on Southside. Opened for 100 inmates in 1814, the only provision for lunatics in Norwich had until then been at the Bethel hospital within the city. The original building consisted of a range of two-storey wings for male and female patients, divided by a central administration block and service areas. The building was constructed with a view to economy, using yellow stock brick and grey slate roofing. The grounds to the south included airing courts for male and female patients and a burial ground to the south east, consecrated and opened to burials in 1815. By 1849 further alterations to the site were required. These were designed by John Brown, because Francis Stone had died in 1835. The ward blocks were expanded with projecting wings to the north and male and female accommodation was swapped with males moved from the west to the east sides.

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