THE BOLINGBROKE HOSPITAL
This handsome block of buildings is the new “William Shepherd Memorial Wing” of an exist
ing hospital which had outgrown its original premises. There are few branches of modern architecture in England which show such a uniformly high grade of accomplishment as does hospital design, and the building at present under consideration is no exception to this excellent standard. A reference to the plan shows that the new administrative offices are well arranged, while the operating theatre, nurses’ quarters, and wards for adults and children are not only hygienically designed in themselves, but have the right mutual relationship. The basement is given up to lecture rooms, stores, dispensary, and a large room for massage work. The ground floor contains, besides smaller apartments, one large ward for 20 beds, which is designed on a somewhat different principle from that exemplified in the ordinary type of hospital ward. The idea was derived from a scheme occasionally put into practice in temporary war hospitals where it was especially necessary to economise space. By the device of raising the windows far enough above the floors to leave a fairly large plain wall-face below them, it was possible to place the beds independently of the windows. The first and second floors are chiefly devoted to single wards for private patients, and on the west side have a large covered balcony. The third floor contains bedrooms for 20 nurses, with the necessary sanitary offices. The west and south elevations, which are here illustrated, are treated with great skill; the chimney, with its substantial width, forms an adequate central feature to the end facade, the balcony in its three stages forms an imposing piece of repetitive design, while the staircase tower, so admirably expressive of its purpose,
is a pleasing climax to the composition. The architects, Messrs. Young & Hall, are to be congratulated upon a highly successful design.
The general contractors were Messrs. J. Garrett & Son, S3 Balham Hill, S. W. 12. The sub-contractors included Messrs. Banister, Walton & Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Aston Construction Co., Ltd. (constructional steelwork); Messrs. Dent & Hellyer, Ltd. (plumbing and sanitary work); Messrs. Girdlestone & Co. (electrical wiring); Messrs. Waygood-Otis, Ltd. (lift); Messrs. Richard Crittall & Co. (heating and ventilating); Messrs. Ames & Finnis (bricks and tiles); Messrs. Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co., Ltd. (asphalt); Messrs. Light Steelwork (1925), Ltd. (escape staircase, wrot iron railings to balconies, areas and lift enclosure); Messrs. Diespeker & Co., Ltd. (terrazzo); Messrs. Stuarts Granolithic Co., Ltd. (artificial stonework); Messrs. Carter & Co., Ltd., Poole (white tiling); and Messrs. W. B. Simpson & Sons, Ltd. (children’s ward tiles).
The Middlesex County Council have endorsed the action of the Joint Thames Bridges Committee of the Middlesex and Surrey County Councils in declining to proceed with the Chertsey and Hampton Court Bridge schemes unless the Ministry of Transport contributes 75 per cent. of the cost.
Winchester House, St. James’s Square, will be offered at auction in September, unless previously sold by private treaty. The present owners are the Government, who acquired the building in 1876, and have used it for the sittings of Royal Commissions and a variety of other purposes. In the past it has been used by the Union Club, and as a town house by Dukes of Leeds and of St. Albans.
THE BOLINGBROKE HOSPITAL: WILLIAM SHEPHERD MEMORIAL WING, WANDSWORTH COMMON, S. W.
Messrs. Young & Hall, FF. R. I. B. A., Architects.
This handsome block of buildings is the new “William Shepherd Memorial Wing” of an exist
ing hospital which had outgrown its original premises. There are few branches of modern architecture in England which show such a uniformly high grade of accomplishment as does hospital design, and the building at present under consideration is no exception to this excellent standard. A reference to the plan shows that the new administrative offices are well arranged, while the operating theatre, nurses’ quarters, and wards for adults and children are not only hygienically designed in themselves, but have the right mutual relationship. The basement is given up to lecture rooms, stores, dispensary, and a large room for massage work. The ground floor contains, besides smaller apartments, one large ward for 20 beds, which is designed on a somewhat different principle from that exemplified in the ordinary type of hospital ward. The idea was derived from a scheme occasionally put into practice in temporary war hospitals where it was especially necessary to economise space. By the device of raising the windows far enough above the floors to leave a fairly large plain wall-face below them, it was possible to place the beds independently of the windows. The first and second floors are chiefly devoted to single wards for private patients, and on the west side have a large covered balcony. The third floor contains bedrooms for 20 nurses, with the necessary sanitary offices. The west and south elevations, which are here illustrated, are treated with great skill; the chimney, with its substantial width, forms an adequate central feature to the end facade, the balcony in its three stages forms an imposing piece of repetitive design, while the staircase tower, so admirably expressive of its purpose,
is a pleasing climax to the composition. The architects, Messrs. Young & Hall, are to be congratulated upon a highly successful design.
The general contractors were Messrs. J. Garrett & Son, S3 Balham Hill, S. W. 12. The sub-contractors included Messrs. Banister, Walton & Co., Ltd., and Messrs. Aston Construction Co., Ltd. (constructional steelwork); Messrs. Dent & Hellyer, Ltd. (plumbing and sanitary work); Messrs. Girdlestone & Co. (electrical wiring); Messrs. Waygood-Otis, Ltd. (lift); Messrs. Richard Crittall & Co. (heating and ventilating); Messrs. Ames & Finnis (bricks and tiles); Messrs. Limmer and Trinidad Lake Asphalt Co., Ltd. (asphalt); Messrs. Light Steelwork (1925), Ltd. (escape staircase, wrot iron railings to balconies, areas and lift enclosure); Messrs. Diespeker & Co., Ltd. (terrazzo); Messrs. Stuarts Granolithic Co., Ltd. (artificial stonework); Messrs. Carter & Co., Ltd., Poole (white tiling); and Messrs. W. B. Simpson & Sons, Ltd. (children’s ward tiles).
The Middlesex County Council have endorsed the action of the Joint Thames Bridges Committee of the Middlesex and Surrey County Councils in declining to proceed with the Chertsey and Hampton Court Bridge schemes unless the Ministry of Transport contributes 75 per cent. of the cost.
Winchester House, St. James’s Square, will be offered at auction in September, unless previously sold by private treaty. The present owners are the Government, who acquired the building in 1876, and have used it for the sittings of Royal Commissions and a variety of other purposes. In the past it has been used by the Union Club, and as a town house by Dukes of Leeds and of St. Albans.
THE BOLINGBROKE HOSPITAL: WILLIAM SHEPHERD MEMORIAL WING, WANDSWORTH COMMON, S. W.
Messrs. Young & Hall, FF. R. I. B. A., Architects.