Monument record 0940600000 - Wycombe General Hospital, Queen Alexandra Road
Summary
Protected Status/Designation
- None recorded
Map
Type and Period (2)
- GENERAL HOSPITAL (Built 1961-6, 20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
- GENERAL HOSPITAL (Built 1923, 20th Century - 1900 AD to 1999 AD)
Description
Wycombe General Hospital (formerly High Wycombe and District War Memorial Hospital)(B1-2).
High Wycombe War Memorial Hospital was built on land on Marlow Hill given by the Marquis of Lincolnshire and opened in 1923 with provision for 35 patients (B3-4).
Extended in 1930s with capacity for 55 patients (B5).
Current hospital built 1961-6 (B4).
Designed by Powell and Moya (B6).
Wycombe General Hospital by Powell & Moya, with consultants Llewelyn-Davies & Weeks, 1961-6. Carefully tailored to a very restricted site on a steep slope. A sophisticated, mostly glass six-storey tower of wards, the first example of the American race-track plan with wards opening off a continuous circuit of corridor. The concrete framework of cantilevered floors and columns is strongly expressed, and set-off against glass walling with recessed windows sheilded by glass balconies and 'brises-soleil'. It sits above a low podium that spreads, rather messily, to the margins of the site, and in front forms a terrace - Llewelyn-Davies's 'machbox on a muffin' type. Nurses' hostel, 1961-3 (B7).
Sources (7)
- <1>SBC22360 Bibliographic reference: Royal Commision on Historical Monuments. 1998. English Hospitals 1660-1948: A Survey of Their Architecture and Design. p197.
- <2>SBC22584 Unpublished document: RCHME. 1991-4. Wycombe General Hospital (National Buildings Record no. 100377).
- <3>SBC19605 Bibliographic reference: Ivan G Sparkes. 1990. High Wycombe: A Pictorial History. Caption to plate 26.
- <4>SBC22464 Bibliographic reference: James Rattue. 2002. High Wycombe Past. pp61,99, plates 72, 141.
- <5>SBC22576 Bibliographic reference: Colin J Seabright. 2005. High Wycombe Revisited. Captions to plates p77.
- <6>SBC22575 Bibliographic reference: Martin Andrew. 2005. High Wycombe: A History and Celebration. pp92, 104.
- <7>SBC19664 Bibliographic reference: Nikolaus Pevsner & Elizabeth Williamson. 1994. The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire. p389.
Location
| Grid reference | SU 86368 92638 (point) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | HIGH WYCOMBE, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire |
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Record last edited
Jul 20 2021 3:03PM
