Historic houses · Yorkshire & the Humber
Leeds General Infirmary
Leeds General Infirmary — a Grade I-listed historic house in england-yorkshire, United Kingdom.
Stephen Craven — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
- Family-friendly
- Limited wheelchair access
About
Leeds General Infirmary is a Grade I-listed building in england-yorkshire, United Kingdom. Grade I status is conferred by Historic England (or Cadw, Historic Environment Scotland or NIEA equivalents) on buildings of exceptional national interest. See the linked Wikipedia article for full historical and architectural details.
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From the Wikipedia article
Leeds General Infirmary, also known as the LGI, is a large teaching hospital based in the centre of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, and is part of the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Its previous name The General Infirmary at Leeds is still sometimes used. The LGI is a specialist centre for a number of services, including the regional Major Trauma Centre and hand transplants. It also provides many general acute services like A&E, intensive care and high dependency units, maternity and state-of-the-art operating theatres. A helipad on the roof of the Jubilee Wing gives direct access to the hospital for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance. Two new hospitals are planned on the site. One will be a maternity unit with capacity to deliver up to 10,500 babies a year. Completion is planned between 2026-2028. It will remove the need to transfer expectant mothers between St James’s Hospital and Leeds General Infirmary.
Excerpt from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0. See the source article linked in Sources below.
Background
History
The first hospital known as Leeds Infirmary was opened in 1771 on what is now the site of the former Yorkshire Bank in Infirmary Street off City Square, Leeds. Notably, the founding five physicians at the infirmary were all graduates of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. Construction of the current hospital on its new site in Great George Street started in 1863 to the designs of Sir George Gilbert Scott and built by the Bradford firm, J and W Beanland. Before drawing up the plans Gilbert Scott and the Infirmary's Chief Physician, Dr Charles Chadwick, visited many of the great contemporary hospitals of Europe. They were particularly impressed by hospitals based on the pavilion plan…
Architecture
<gallery> File:LGI Garden 19 July 2018 1.jpg|Central courtyard garden File:LGI entrance hall 26 June 2018 1.jpg|Great George Street entrance hall File:LGI Entrance corridor 19 July 2018 3.jpg|Corridor from the entrance hall File:LGI landing 26 June 2018 2.jpg|Staircase up to the main level of the hospital File:LGI landing 26 June 2018 1.jpg|Landing at the top of the staircase File:LGI Potts clock 26 June 2018.jpg|Potts clock File:LGI Chapel door 26 June 2018.jpg|The Chapel </gallery>
Sourced from Wikipedia under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Coordinates
- 53.8021, -1.5508
- District
- Leeds
- Parish
- Leeds, unparished area
- Postcode
- LS1 3EX
- Parliamentary constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley
- Established
- 1771
- Official site
- carriageworkstheatre.org.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q1245797 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Leeds General Infirmary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Leeds General Infirmary?
- Leeds General Infirmary is in Yorkshire, United Kingdom (postcode LS1 3EX), in the parish of Leeds, unparished area.
- When was Leeds General Infirmary built?
- Built or established in 1771.
- Is Leeds General Infirmary a listed building?
- Leeds General Infirmary is officially recognised as Grade I listed.
- How do I get to Leeds General Infirmary?
- Drivers can navigate to postcode LS1 3EX. It sits within the Leeds Central and Headingley parliamentary constituency.