Newsham Park Hospital
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| Newsham Park Hospital | |
 Newsham Park Hospital |
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  Shown within Merseyside
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| Building information | |
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| Town | Liverpool |
| Country |  England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | Coordinates: |
| Architect | Alfred Waterhouse |
| Client | Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution |
| Completion date | 1874 |
Newsham Park Hospital is a grade II listed building in Liverpool, Merseyside, England (grid reference SJ379920). It now lies derelict but was previously a hospital and before that it was an orphanage.
[edit] History
The Liverpool Seamen's Orphan Institution was created to provide care and education for the children of Liverpool who had lost families at sea. This care was funded by a group of local merchants in 1869 who rented a temporary building on Duke Street to this end.
The following year Liverpool City Council donated an area of land next to Newsham Park and this large building, designed by the celebrated architect Sir Alfred Waterhouse was constructed to be the new orphanage. It was finally opened in 1874.
After the orphanage closed on 27 July 1949 the building stood unused until in 1951 the building was bought by the Ministry of Health to become a hospital in the newly formed National Health Service. However, the hospital was closed in 1988 and the building and its site has become gradually more run down each year.
In 2004 a plan by its owners Gateway Properties to develop the building into flats was defeated by local regeneration campaigners and in July 2007 the site was put up for sale.
