St Nicholas Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

As Newcastle upon Tyne did not have a hospital of its own for mentally ill patients, a new asylum was proposed in Coxlodge, where a 50 acre farmstead known as Dodd's Farm was purchased. In 1864 initial plans were drawn up, and William Lambie Moffatt was appointed architect. The facility opened as Newcastle upon Tyne Borough Lunatic Asylum in July 1869 and became the Newcastle upon Tyne City Lunatic Asylum in 1882. Some of the first patients were transferred from Bensham Asylum as Durham County Magistrates had refused to renew the contract of that facility. In 1884 permission was granted to extend the hospital, and the East and West Pavilions were completed in 1887. These allowed an…