Hospital Name: Norwich Borough Lunatic Asylum (old)
Previous Names: Norwich Asylum, St Augustine’s Gate Asylum
Location: Waterloo Road, Norwich
Principal Architect: not known
Layout: Early corridor plan with extensions
Status: Converted to housing
Opened: 1828
Closed: 1880

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Norwich had roughly 50 private asylums and a handful of private subscription asylums.

The lunatic poor went to the poor house or workhouse even though there was no special provision for them. However, from 1828, they were to be housed on a site once occupied by a lazar (leper) hospital established by a Bishop of Norwich; this was just outside St Augustine’s Gates in a new building that had a ward for the sick.

The new asylum, adjacent to the pre-existing workhouse infirmary, was known for the first two years of its existence as the Norwich Pauper Asylum . Renamed the Norwich City Asylum, the institution was to remain here until 1880 when a new City Asylum opened in Hellesdon.

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Records

Due to the short period of operation we have no information regarding hospital records.

Burials/Cemetery

Due to the short period of operation we have no information regarding burials.

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