Former Victoria Hospital demolished and replaced by Mansfield Community Hospital, Stockwell Gate, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire (centre SK 5324 6081)
The former Victoria Hospital originated from the Mansfield Union Workhouse infirmary that lay to the east of the surviving buildings. Three elements of the former hospital still sur-vive at the site, two smaller buildings that would have served as nurse stations, day rooms and offices, and a larger former ward wing to the east. The buildings were erected between 1897/8 with elements possibly dating from an earlier phase of construction in 1883. The Victoria Hospital was designed by local architect Robert Frank Vallance. The majority of the buildings are in a good state of repair, although have been modernised and added to throughout the 20th century, and few internal features survive. The original plan of the Vic-toria Hospital would have been based on the pavilion design with ward wings, a typical hos-pital design for this date. The buildings are considered to have local significance, having been associated with the former Mansfield Union Workhouse and Victoria Hospital, as well as being designed by a local architect. (1)
Previously known as the Victoria Hospital it was built to replace the workhouse infirmary and became an independent hospital. The buildings represented a good example of local pre-NHS hospital built in 1897/8. After the foundation of the NHS in 1948 the hospital came under the control of the Sheffield Regional Health Board and considerable modernisation, alteration and demolition occurred, leaving little of the hospitals original form intact. Despite the alteration work the buildings were a good example of pre-NHS health care provision and reflect the social changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (2)

<1> ULAS, 2004, A Building Appraisal of the Mansfield Community Hospital, Stockwell Gate, Mansfield, (Unpublished document). SNT5268.

<2> ULAS, 2007, An Archaeological Standing Building Survey of the Former Victoria Hospital
(Now Mansfield Community Hospital), Stockwell Gate, Mansfield,
Nottinghamshire (Unpublished document). SNT4746.