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Royal South Hants Hospital

Royal South Hants Hospital
NHS Property Services
Royal South Hants Hospital
Royal South Hants Hospital is located in Southampton
Royal South Hants Hospital
Shown in Southampton
Geography
LocationBevois Valley, Southampton, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates50°54′45″N 1°23′48″W / 50.9126°N 1.3968°W / 50.9126; -1.3968
Organisation
Care systemPublic NHS
TypeCommunity hospital
Affiliated universityUniversity of Southampton
Services
Emergency departmentNo Accident & Emergency
Beds332 (originally)
History
Opened1835
Links
Websitewww.royalsouthhantshospital.nhs.uk
ListsHospitals in England

The Royal South Hants Hospital, known locally as "The RSH", is a community hospital in Southampton. It is managed by NHS Property Services.

History

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Mosaic at the hospital

The hospital was founded as the Royal South Hampshire Infirmary in 1835[1][2] and moved into its first premises in St Mary Street in 1838.[3] It was initially a Voluntary hospital.[3]

The foundation stone for new premises in Fanshawe Street was laid on 10 July 1843.[4] The hospital opened there in 1844.[2][3] Joseph and William Bullar, doctors and brothers of children’s author Anne Bullar, funded additional wards for the hospital. These wards, named the Bullar Wards, were completed in 1851.[1] The Eyre Crabbe Wing, located on the east side of the site, was completed in 1868.[1][5]

In 1896, another new wing, containing a further two wards and some operating theatres, was started, as well as some cottages to house patients with infectious diseases and a mortuary. This new wing was officially opened by Princess Henry of Battenberg on 7 February 1900 and named the Victoria Jubilee Wing.[6]

During World War II, a country home of Lord Mountbatten, the Broadlands, was used as an annexe for the hospital.[7][8][9]

The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948.[3][5] As part of a transfer of mental health services from Knowle Hospital, a psychiatry block was completed in 1979.[5] The block closed in 2009.[5]

On 31 March 2007 management of the hospital was passed to Southampton City Primary Care Trust with several services transferring to Southampton General Hospital and the Princess Anne Hospital. In 2010[10] a new adult mental health unit called Antelope House was opened on the former Antelope Ground, housing 50 acute beds and 12 psychiatric intensive care beds.[5]

The hospital is heated as part of the Southampton District Energy Scheme network.[11]

Chapel

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Royal South Hants Hospital chapel

St Paul's Chapel was completed in 1857.[1][5] The chapel fell out of use in 1992.[1][5] The Chapel is a Grade II listed building, as of 1981.[12]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Avery, John (2009). "The Royal South Hants Hospital Chapel" (PDF). Westender. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b Crump, Ian (16 July 2023). "How Royal South Hants became the hospital we know today". Southern Daily Echo. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  3. ^ a b c d "Royal South Hants Hospital". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  4. ^ "South Hants Infirmary". Sense of Place South East. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Brisland, Martin (7 December 2022). "How Southampton's Royal South Hants hospital came to be". Southern Daily Echo. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  6. ^ "Princess Henry of Battenberg at Southampton". The Times. No. 36060. London. 8 February 1900. p. 7.
  7. ^ Smith, Charles (1980). Lord Mountbatten: His Butler's Story. United States: Stein and Day. p. 71. ISBN 0812827511.
  8. ^ "Broadlands, Romsey". Sense of Place South East. Hampshire Library & Information Service. Archived from the original on 2 February 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  9. ^ Hicks, India (2024). Lady Pamela: My Mother's Extraordinary Years as Daughter to the Viceroy of India, Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen, and Wife of David Hicks. United States: Rizzoli. p. 49. ISBN 9780847828623.
  10. ^ "Services - Royal South Hants Hospital". Archived from the original on 19 April 2010. Retrieved 8 July 2011.
  11. ^ "Southampton celebrates 25 years of geothermal District Energy Scheme". Southern Daily Echo. 29 November 2011. Archived from the original on 2 February 2025. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
  12. ^ "CHAPEL TO THE ROYAL SOUTH HAMPSHIRE HOSPITAL, Non Civil Parish - 1178783 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2 February 2025.
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