This storeroom, opposite the Sanctuary, was originally constructed as a mortuary. It was built in 1891, and its design, by Henry Wilkinson Moore, was intended to compliment that of the Chapel. The bodies of patients who died at the Warneford would be laid to rest here while funeral arrangements were made.
Henry Wilkinson Moore was architect William Wilkinson’s nephew and mentee, becoming his uncle’s official partner in 1881. Upon his uncle’s retirement in 1886, Henry took over the design of Norham Manor Estate in North Oxford. He also designed St Giles in Woodstock Road, the Logic Lane covered bridge and The Clarendon Press Institute in Walton Street.
More recently the mortuary building has been used as a storage facility by the hospital works department.
Image: 1898 Ordnance Survey map of WH
