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1848 |
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Work started on building the City Union Workhouse, opened in 1850. It was designed by Hezekiah Marshall and was a two-courtyard design accommodating around 400 people. A chapel was built and at some point equipped with a bell in an enclosed turret, hung for swing chiming with a lever. |
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1930 |
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The site became a Public Assistance Institution known as "The Home". |
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1945 |
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The hospital chapel was used as the interim parish church of St Mary Bredin until the new St Mary Bredin church was opened in 1957. |
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1948 |
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The Home joined the National Health Service as Nunnery Fields Hospital, providing geriatric care. |
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2001 |
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The hospital closed. The main workhouse block (including the chapel, which in the interim had been converted into the EEG unit) was demolished but the infirmary that was built in 1883 was redeveloped for residential use. |