Creepiest Places upon Earth : Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum) , England
Hellingly Hospital (The Lost Asylum),
England
Sitting on top of a hill oversight the East Sussex Countryside sits
the battered remnant of Hellingly hospital, Formerly Hellingly Asylum. If the name of this English hospital isn’t
enough to persuade you of its creepiness consider the fact that it’s not really
a hospital at all. It’s actually an insane asylum; or rather it
was an insane asylum before being abandoned several years ago. It was
built close to the small village of Hellingly, in South West England.
That East Sussex
County Asylum of Hellingly was designed by leading Victorian
architect GT Hine and built to a late Victorian design during a period of huge extension
for mental health facilities in Britain.it was built with the concept that
relaxing views and extreme isolation were beneficial to psychological cure, the asylum's remote location was to provide the
patients with a relaxed and isolated setting (ideal for rehabilitation) and to
create a world far removed from the officious eyes of daily life outside the
hospital walls.
Somehow
something went 'wrong' with the design of Hellingly, and Hine produced the
plans for a spectacularly decorated theatre, maybe something to do with the
hospital being towards the end of his career or maybe he just woke up in a
frivolous mood that day. Hellingly's main hall remains the hospital's centerpiece,
an adjoining point at which every sprawling corridor can find its way from.
Patients
& staff used to live under the same roof in the many red bricks buildings
linked by closed hallways, and offering "therapeutic" and relaxing
views on the surrounding quiet and green countryside.
The hospital,
as with most from the Victorian era, was fully self-sufficient and the
hospital's program ensured that patients from all over the site were allocated
various jobs in the hospital such as the farming, laundry work or grounds
keeping. An onsite railway station with an electric tramway provided the
hospital with additional supplies and visitors but was closed in the 1950s due
to high upkeep costs.
The
capacity of the hospital was originally deemed at 700 patients, although wards
were packed with 1,250 by 1955. The overcrowded conditions led to beds in
hallways and a general decline in the quality of care, until the Mental Health
Act of 1959.
A
medium-security unit called Ashen Hill was added in the mid-1980s; however the
main hospital campus was slowly closing. It was eventually shuttered in 1994
with the exception of Ashen Hill. A housing complex eventually replaced the
abandoned hospital around 2012.
The
Hospital today has suffered over 10 years of remissness badly; arson has
destroyed several buildings most remarkable the administration block. Vandals
have been removing all the windows; the easier to access ground floor areas
have received the brunt of these attacks.
Despite the harshness
of destruction and chaos systematically inflicted on the buildings by time and man,
but a few hidden gems tucked away in remote parts of the site still remain.
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