Tooting Bec Hospital was a mental facility in

Tooting Bec Tooting Bec is in the London Borough of Wandsworth, south London, England. History Tooting Bec appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as "Totinges". It was held partly by St Mary de Bec-Hellouin Abbey and partly by Westminster Abbey. Its domesday asse ...

, London, England.

History

This facility was one of the establishments commissioned by the Metropolitan Asylums Board to deal with chronic cases. The hospital, which was designed by Arthur and Christopher Harston using a dual pavilion layout, opened as the Tooting Bec Asylum in January 1903. It became Tooting Bec Mental Hospital in 1924 and, after suffering some bomb damage during the

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, it joined the

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as Tooting Bec Hospital in 1948. After the introduction of

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in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1995. The buildings were subsequently demolished and the site redeveloped by Fairview Homes for residential use as "Heritage Park".

References

{{reflist Hospital buildings completed in 1903 Hospitals established in 1903 1903 establishments in England 1995 disestablishments in England Hospitals disestablished in 1995 Defunct hospitals in London Former psychiatric hospitals in England