Holloway Sanatorium was an institution for the treatment of the insane, located on 22 acres (89,000 m2) of parkland near the town of Virginia Water, Surrey, within the boundary of the Greater London Urban Area, about 22 miles (35 km) south-west of Charing Cross.
It was conceived by the wealthy philanthropist Thomas Holloway, designed in an elaborate Franco-Gothic style by W. H. Crossland, and built between 1873 and 1885. It is a stunning building, particularly when seen from the M25 with its sister building, the Royal Holloway College; Sir Nikolaus Pevsner regarded these two buildings as the "summit of High Victorian design". In 1948 it was transferred to the National Health Service. In the year 2000, after a period in which it had been neglected, it became a gated housing development with many of the original features preserved under the direction of English Heritage.
Read more about Holloway Sanatorium: Brief History, Thomas Holloway’s Philanthropy, Holloway Initiates The Design, Competition For The Plan, Architect: William Henry Crossland, Site: Virginia Water, Building The Sanatorium, Contemporary Account, Opening - A Contemporary Account, Staff and Patients, Wards, Life in The Sanatorium, St. Ann's Hospital, Lyne Place, After World War II, Development
Famous quotes containing the word holloway:
“I am blackly bored when they are at large & at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway & we are deprived of them.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)