Archway Hospital
Archway Road, Highgate, N19
Medical dates:
Medical character:
1879 - 1980
Acute
The Holborn Union Infirmary opened in 1879 on the west side of Archway Road, Highgate. The four-storey building had 625 beds, with female wards at the south part and male wards at the north. A recreation area at the back of the Infirmary was divided across the centre to keep the sexes apart. A two-storey block on the east of the site contained receiving wards, a doctor's residence and a dispensary.
In 1912 the nursing staff quarters were extended at the southern end of the site.
In 1921 it was renamed the Holborn and Finsbury Hospital.
In 1928 the Hospital took over Furnival House in Cholmeley Park for use as a Nurses' Home.
In 1930, following the abolition of the Boards of Guardians, the Hospital came under the administrative control of the LCC, who renamed it the
Archway Hospital.
By 1948, at the advent of the NHS, it had merged with St Mary's Hospital, situated
across the road in Highgate Hill, and the Highgate
Hospital in Dartmouth Park Road. The three Hospitals became
the Whittington Hospital. The Archway Hospital became the Archway Wing, with 416 beds.
By 1977 the Whittington Hospital, under the North London Group Hospital
Management Committee, had just under 2000 beds.
In the 1970s the 8-storey Furnival Building was added to the site and, in the 1980s, the 3-storey Ely Building.
In 1998 the Archway Wing of the Whittington Hospital was sold by the
NHS and jointly purchased by University College London and Middlesex
University.
Present status (March 2008) Update: April 2015 The Archway Campus closed in August 2013 and the site has been sold to Peabody for redevelopment in 2014. Furnival House has been sold for redevelopment into luxury apartments. |
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The frontage along Archway Road.
The main entrance in Archway Road.
The back of the building from across Highgate Hill
A view of the building from Tollworth Way.
The clerestory-roofed entry to the Sex Clinic, part of the Clerkenwell Building.
A site plan for the Archway Campus.
Furnival House (above and below), built in 1916 for the female staff of the Prudential Assurance Company, became the Nurses' Home in 1928. It is currently a hall of residence for students at the University of Westminster.
References (Accessed 19th April 2015)
(Author unstated) 1912 Nursing echoes. British Journal of Nursing, 18th May, 393.