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Latitude: 51.4357 / 51°26'8"N
Longitude: -0.1699 / 0°10'11"W
OS Eastings: 527305
OS Northings: 172338
OS Grid: TQ273723
Mapcode National: GBR D8.9TS
Mapcode Global: VHGRC.05JP
Plus Code: 9C3XCRPJ+72
Entry Name: Elizabeth Newton Wing, Springfield Hospital
Listing Date: 29 September 1997
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375289
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466176
Also known as: Newton Building
ID on this website: 101375289
Location: Upper Tooting, Wandsworth, London, SW17
County: London
District: Wandsworth
Electoral Ward/Division: Tooting
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Wandsworth
Traditional County: Surrey
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: Tooting St Augustine
Church of England Diocese: Southwark
Tagged with: Hospital building
This list entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 9 April 2025 to amend the language used in the description.
The Elizabeth Newton Wing was built in response to the Lunacy Act (1890). and sought to separate children with learning disabilities from adults with mental health conditions. It is recognised that the terms ‘lunatic’ and ‘idiot’ are antiquated terms that are offensive and is therefore only used here in terms of historic names of buildings and legislation.
TQ 2727
1207/16/10075
GLENBURNIE ROAD, SW17
Elizabeth Newton Wing, Springfield Hospital
GV II
The Elizabeth Newton Wing (formerly the ‘Annexe for Idiot Children’) at Springfield Hospital. 1895 by Rowland Plumbe. Red brick with stone dressings. Slated roofs with tall brick chimney stacks; central tower roof gabled with a cupola. Small echelon-type plan with four ward wings. Elizabethan style to match the main hospital. Mostly two stories. Central range with three storey battlemented tower, two window bays and a canted bay window. All windows are transom and mullion, most with small panes. Diagonally-set echelon pavilions have battlemented stair tower on the inner angles and similar but wider day-room towers with canted bay windows at the distal ends.
INTERIOR: has a central dining hall with arch-braced timber roof and central clerestory.
HISTORY: this is a unique incidence of an ‘Idiots’ Annexe’ for children within a former Lunatic Asylum and reflects the concern of the Medical Superintendent, Hugh Gardner-Hill to separate children with learning disabilities from adults with mental health conditions. The plan, too, is very unusual for this type of building.
Listing NGR: TQ2730572338
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