Old Cumbria Gazetteer - City General Hospital, Carlisle


	City General Hospital, Carlisle
	City General Hospital
	Carlisle Union Workhouse
	Fusehill Workhouse
Street:-	Fusehill Street
locality:-	Carlisle
civil parish:-	Carlisle (formerly Cumberland)
county:-	Cumbria
locality type:-	hospital
locality type:-	workhouse (ex)
coordinates:-	NY40935559
1Km square:-	NY4055
10Km square:-	NY45
SummaryText:-	society &health
SummaryText:-	society
references:-	Listed Buildings 2010

evidence:-	old map:- OS County Series (Cmd 23 8) placename:- Union Workhouse placename:- Infirmary
source data:-	Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. "Union Workhouse"

evidence:-	old text:- Gents Mag item:- riot
source data:-	Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922. goto source Gentleman's Magazine 1812 part 1 p.480 "The Carlisle Journal states, that tumult and disorder at present prevail in that neighbourhood, and to a greater extent than at any time since the disturbances first broke out. ... Even the asylum of the poor is not spared by these offenders. On Monday night, the 18th, the workhouse of St. Cuthbert's parish, at Harraby-hill, was entered by one of the windows, and a quantity of bacon and hams taken away."

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- City General Hospital placename:- Union Workhouse placename:- Fusehill Workhouse
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL / / FUSEHILL STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386757 / NY4093255591"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Hospital, formerly the Union Workhouse (called the Fusehill Workhouse). 1863-4, Lockwood &Mawson (architects). A good example of this later phase of workhouse design by nationally renowned architects. Original plans dated 1862 (Cumbria County Record Office, Ca/E4/821). Flemish bond brickwork on chamfered plinth (all dressings of calciferous sandstone, partly painted), with angle pilastered quoins on projections, string courses and dentilled cornice. Hipped greenslate roof without chimney stacks, central bellcote. 3 storeys under common roof; recessed pedimented 5 central bays, flanked by square single-bay projections rising above roof as lead-domed cupolas; beyond are 9-bay wings with further single-bay projections symmetrically placed; overall 23-bay facade. Central round-arched C20 door in original stone surround. All windows are 1980s casements in original surrounds, those on the ground and first floor with rounded stone arches and stone sills; top floor has segmental brick arches. Clock in central pediment. Cupolas have C20 brick blocking of former 2-light openings. Projecting bays on wings have fretted stone parapet to match similar panels on cupolas. Left bay has been added or rebuilt in C20 brick." "INTERIOR is functional and little changed from its workhouse layout. Used as a hospital during World War I and became City General under the 1948 National Health Act."

evidence:-	database:- Listed Buildings 2010 placename:- City Maternity Hospital
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "CITY MATERNITY HOSPITAL (PART OF CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL) / / FUSEHILL STREET / CARLISLE / CARLISLE / CUMBRIA / II / 386758 / NY4098655480"
source data:-	courtesy of English Heritage "Maternity ward, formerly hospital wing of Workhouse. 1863-4 Lockwood &Mawson. Flemish bond brickwork on chamfered plinth (all dressings of calciferous sandstone, partly painted), with quoined angle pilasters, string courses and dentilled cornice. Hipped greenslate roof without chimneys. 2 storeys, 7 bays, the last end bays on each side project and are pedimented; built in a style to match the main workhouse building. Central C20 door in original round-arched pilastered surround. Original sash windows with glazing bars, those on ground floor in rounded stone arches with stone sills; upper floor segmental brick arches. The projections have tripartite ground-floor windows, those above of 2 lights with central colonnette, all in stone arches." "INTERIOR not inspected." "Listing includes the lower 3-bay flanking wings. Shown as hospital wing for Fusehill Workhouse on 1865 OS map."

notes:-	The building was a military hospital during World War I, closed 1919. By then it had dealt with 9809 patients.

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