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St Luke's Hospital, Rugby

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The site originated as the Rugby Union Workhouse, which was opened just off Lower Hillmorton Road in 1819. The institution was enlarged gradually over the years, until 1930, when it became a local-authority-run Public Assistance Institution for caring for the elderly, infirm and chronically sick.
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St Luke's primarily functioned as an infirmary, though a nurses' training school opened there in 1951, and child development services were moved there in 1982. In the early 1990s the decision was taken to close St Luke's and move its services to nearby
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In 1994 the site was sold to housing developers, who demolished most of the buildings for a new housing development called Morton Gardens. Only the former workhouse boardroom remains. The site of the hospital is now covered by housing, a
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The former workhouse boardroom, the only surviving building of the former workhouse and hospital.
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surgery, and an NHS clinic called the Orchard Centre.
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Rugby
Warwickshire
England
Coordinates
52°22′13″N 1°15′06″W / 52.370297°N 1.251532°W / 52.370297; -1.251532
Care system
National Health Service
Hospitals in the United Kingdom
Rugby, Warwickshire
workhouse
Second World War
Emergency Hospital Service
National Health Service
St Cross Hospital
general practice
"Rugby, Warwickshire"


"St. Luke's Hospital, 1948 - 1993 and after"
"Hospital of St Lukes, Rugby"

St Luke's Hospital, Rugby
Categories
Defunct hospitals in England
Hospitals in Warwickshire
Buildings and structures in Rugby, Warwickshire
Workhouses in England
1819 establishments in England
1993 disestablishments in England

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