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Monument details

HER Number:TR 15 NE 391
Type of record:Building
Name:Nunnery Fields Hospital (formerly Canterbury Union Workhouse and Infirmary)

Summary

Originally a Poor Law site erected c.1850 now a geriatric hospital.

Grid Reference:TR 1501 5675
Map Sheet:TR15NE
Parish:CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT

Monument Types

  • BUILDING (Unknown date)
  • WORKHOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD? to 1948 AD?)
  • INFIRMARY (Post Medieval to Modern - 1883 AD to 1948 AD?)
  • HOSPITAL (Modern - 1948 AD? to 2050 AD)

Full description

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Now a geriatric hospital, this was originally a Poor Law site, comprising Canterbury Union Workhouse, erected in c.1850 to designs by Hezekiah Marshall, and an adjoining infirmary, added in 1883 to designs by john Cowell. Other buildings on the site include a detached chapel and a home for staff.(1)

Additional information (2)


<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 RCHME, 1993, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Compilation of Kent Hospitals Record Sheets (Unpublished document).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> Thames Valley Archaeological Services, 2002, Nunnery Fields Hospital, Canterbury, Kent: An Archaeological Desk Based Assessment (Unpublished document). SKe8109.

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Unpublished document: RCHME. 1993.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Unpublished document: Thames Valley Archaeological Services. 2002. Nunnery Fields Hospital, Canterbury, Kent: An Archaeological Desk Based Assessment.