Pen-y-Fal Hospital
Main hospital converted to accommodation (2007)
Pen-y-Fal Hospital is located in Monmouthshire
Pen-y-Fal Hospital
Shown in Monmouthshire
Geography
LocationAbergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales
Coordinates51°49′27″N 3°00′33″W / 51.824246°N 3.009164°W / 51.824246; -3.009164
Organisation
Care systemNHS
TypeSpecialist
Services
Beds1,170 (at peak)
SpecialityMental health
History
Opened1 December 1851
Closed1997
Links
ListsHospitals in Wales

Pen-y-Fal Hospital (Welsh: Ysbyty Pen-y-Fal) was a psychiatric hospital in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. The main building is Grade II listed.[1]

History

The Joint Counties' Lunatic Asylum, "Hereford Journal Almanac", 1850

The hospital was designed by Thomas Fulljames using a corridor plan layout.[2] It was built in the Gothic style using local old red sandstone with Bath stone dressings and opened as the Joint Counties' Lunatic Asylum in December 1851.[2] It initially had 210 inmates in 12 wards[3] and was set in grounds of 75 acres of landscaping.[4]

A new infirmary wing was completed in 1861 and a laundry block was added in 1875.[3] The central administration block and the epileptic block were completed in 1883 and the working men's dormitory was opened in 1891.[3] At its peak at the end of the century it had 1,170 patients.[3]

It became the Monmouthshire Asylum in 1897 and was renamed the Monmouth Mental Hospital in 1930[3] before joining the National Health Service as Pen-y-Val Hospital in 1948.[3] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s the hospital went into a period of decline and it finally closed in 1997.[3]

Between 1851 and 1950, over 3,000 patients died at the hospital. A memorial plaque for the deceased has now been placed at the site.[5]

The main hospital building was converted into luxury accommodation by Redrow plc under the name "Sarno Square" in 2001.[6][7]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Parc Pen-y-fal (former main hospital building)". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  2. 1 2 "Pen-y-Fal Hospital". County Hospitals. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Pen-y-Fal". Coflein. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  4. ↑ Burdett, Henry C. (1891). "Hospitals and Asylums of the world". J & A Churchill.
  5. ↑ "Pen-y-Fal Psychiatric Hospital". coflein.gov.uk. Retrieved 10 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Plans passed for six luxury townhouses within this Abergavenny Hospital chapel conversion". Wales online. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "Sarno Square". Atlantis Estates. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
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