Clayton Hospital was a health facility in Wentworth Street,

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, England. It was managed by The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

History

The facility had its origins in the Wakefield General Dispensary established in Dispensary Yard in 1787. After Thomas Clayton, a former mayor, decided to finance expansion of the facility, it moved to a site at the junction of Wood Street and Cross Street in 1854. It absorbed patients from the Wakefield House of Recovery which closed at that time. It was renamed the Clayton Hospital and Wakefield General Dispensary in 1863 to reflect the completion of a new inpatients wing. Using finance from a legacy left by Thomas Clayton, it relocated to new premises in Northgate, designed by William Bakewell, in 1879. It joined the

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as Clayton Hospital in 1948. After services had transferred to

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, it closed in 2012. A major fire took place at the derelict hospital in February 2017. In July 2017

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secured planning consent to refurbish the Victorian Tower but demolish the remainder of the buildings to create sports facilities.

References

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