TQ 57 SE 373 - Bow Arrow Hospital (Site of) - Historic Environment Record

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Monument record TQ 57 SE 373 - Bow Arrow Hospital (Site of)

Summary

Isolation Hospital built by Dartford Rural District Council in 1893. Originally comprised a brick administration block and temporary corrugated-iron ward pavilions. It was subsequently extended until there were seven ward blocks on the site, as well as the administration block, nurses' home, boiler house and laundry and a small chapel. All the buildings have now been demolished and a new housing development built on the site,

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Grid reference	TQ 5558 7435 (point) Centred
Map sheet	TQ57SE
County	KENT
District	DARTFORD, KENT
Civil Parish	DARTFORD, DARTFORD, KENT
Civil Parish	STONE, DARTFORD, KENT

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Type and Period (1)

INFECTIOUS DISEASES HOSPITAL (Demolished, Post Medieval to Modern - 1893 AD? (at some time) to 1990 AD (at some time))

Full Description

Isolation Hospital built by Dartford Rural District Council in 1893. Originally comprised a brick administration block and temporary corrugated-iron ward pavilions by 1903 it had 40 beds. Over the next ten years this doubled, but the most extensive alteratins took place in 1935 until there were seven ward blocks on the site, as well as the administration block, nurses' home, boiler house and laundry and a small chapel. All the buildings have now been demolished and a new housing development built on the site.(1)

Historic England archive material: BF101215 BOW ARROW HOSPITAL, DARTFORD

<1> RCHME, 1993, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Compilation of Kent Hospitals Record Sheets (Unpublished document). SKE6841.

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<1> SKE6841 Unpublished document: RCHME. 1993. Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England: Compilation of Kent Hospitals Record Sheets.