Springfield Hospital/Asylum, Wandsworth LON, June 2009

Springfiled Hospital opened in June 1841 and was originally called the Surry County Asylum. The architects were Edward Lapidge, William Moseley, Rowland Plumbe FRIBA, assisted by Dr. Hugh Gardiner-Hill, the Asylum Superintendent and WT Curtis, Chief Architect to the County of Middlesex. Work commenced from the mid 18th century with the main buildings based on a sort of mock Tudor style, which I thought was very attractive. Further wings were added as patient numbers increased and building carried on into the 1930's. The site is still very much live apart from a single separate wing which is derelict and the subject of these pictures. I have read the wing was closed some time in the early 1990's and we did discover a newspaper there dated from 1997so maybe that's about right.