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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 SW 57 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | St Augustine's Hospital |
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Summary
Built in 1872-75 as the Kent County Asylum due to close in 1991.
| Grid Reference: | TR 1155 5409 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15SW |
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| Parish: | CHARTHAM, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- BUILDING (Unknown date)
- PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL (Post Medieval to Modern - 1872 AD to 1991 AD?)
Full description
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This large hospital was built as the Kent County Asylum in 1872-5 to designs by John Giles and Gough. It is due to close in 1991 and there are plans to demolish most of the buildings on the site.(1-2)
Additional Reference (3)
<1> RCHME, 1993, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Compilation of Kent Hospitals Record Sheets (Unpublished document). SKE6841.
<2> RCHME edited by Harriet Richardson, 1998, English Hospitals 1660-1948 (Monograph). SKE6867.
<3> Lawson-Price Environmental, 1996, Archaeological Desk Based Assessment of Land At St Augustine's Hospital Chartham (Unpublished document). SKE8362.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | <1> | Unpublished document: RCHME. 1993. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Compilation of Kent Hospitals Record Sheets. |
| <2> | Monograph: RCHME edited by Harriet Richardson. 1998. English Hospitals 1660-1948. |
| <3> | Unpublished document: Lawson-Price Environmental. 1996. Archaeological Desk Based Assessment of Land At St Augustine's Hospital Chartham. |
