Rubery Hill Hospital

Rubery Hill Hospital was a mental health facility in Birmingham, England. The chapel, which still survives, is a Grade II listed building.^[1]

Rubery Hill Hospital
The former hospital chapel
Shown in West Midlands
Geography
Location	Nightingale Grove, Birmingham, West Midlands, England
Coordinates	52.3982°N 2.0143°W / 52.3982; -2.0143
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Specialist
Services
Emergency department	N/A
Speciality	Psychiatric Hospital
History
Opened	1882
Closed	1993
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

History

The hospital, which was designed by William Martin and John Henry Chamberlain using a Standard Pavilion layout, opened as the Second Birmingham City Asylum in January 1882.^[2][3] Additional ward pavilions were completed in 1897.^[2] It became the 1st Birmingham War Hospital during the First World War and then became Rubery Hill Mental Hospital in 1919.^[2] During the Second World War it remained a civilian establishment.^[2] It joined the National Health Service as Rubery Hill Hospital in 1948.^[2] Patient numbers peaked in the 1950s.^[4]

After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1993.^[2] Most of the buildings were subsequently demolished and have been replaced by housing.^[2]