The May Davidson Building, named after the eminent clinical psychologist, was constructed in 1968, and was originally designed as an Insulin Coma Therapy Unit (ICT was a form of therapy that has since been discontinued). The building was first used as an adolescent unit, which moved in 1971 to the first Highfield Unit (now closed … Read more
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This was the entrance, with its half-moon of lawn in front, used between 1826 and 1877. Architect Richard Ingleman (1777-1838) designed the original building with this entrance. The other two asylums designed by Ingleman (in Nottingham and Lincoln) had a similar layout, based on the “corridor plan” according to which a central administration block was … Read more
Opposite the Chapel is the location of one quadrant of the original ornamental garden. The mastermind behind the development of the Warneford grounds and gardens was the Rev. Vaughan Thomas, who was chair of the Warneford Management Committee for over 30 years. Working alongside the asylum’s architect, Richard Ingleman, Thomas engaged in extensive correspondence with … Read more
