Carlisle City General Hospital | |
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![]() Carlisle City General Hospital | |
Geography | |
Location | Fusehill Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, England |
Coordinates | 54°53′29″N 2°55′21″W / 54.8914°N 2.9224°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHS |
History | |
Opened | 1863 |
Closed | 1999 |
The Carlisle City General Hospital was a health facility in Fusehill Street, Carlisle, Cumbria, England. It is a Grade II listed building. [1]
The facility has its origins in the Carlisle Union Workhouse which was designed by Henry Lockwood and William Mawson and was completed in 1863. [2] It became a military hospital at Easter 1917 during both the First World War and then served as a military hospital again during the Second World War. [3] It joined the National Health Service as the Carlisle City General Hospital in 1948. [4] After services transferred to the new Cumberland Infirmary, it closed in 1999. [5] It was subsequently converted to become St Martin's College and evolved to become the Carlisle campus of the University of Cumbria. [2]