Former Queen's Hospital, Bath Row
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Former Queen's Hospital, Bath Row
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 20 Mar 2022
The Queen's Hospital opened in 1841 as one of the first British institutions opened specifically as a teaching hospital. Its early years were blighted by the narrowness of its Church of England principles, but it flourished after it was refounded in 1867; see the site of the Birmingham University Medical School, which traces its origins to this institution https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/medical-school/about/history.aspx . The east block was built around 1841 to designs by Bateman and Devey in the Regency style. The west block, a building in an Italianate style by J H Chamberlain, was added in 1873. Both are now listed buildings; descriptions can be found on the Historic England site https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1219917?section=official-list-entry https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1075749?section=official-list-entry . From 1941 to 1993 the buildings were used as an accident hospital. They have since been converted into flats.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.472799
Longitude
-1.909565