Glenside, Bristol

Glenside
Part of the Glenside Hospital building (now Faculty of Health and Social Care, UWE)
Location within Bristol
General information
Town or city	Bristol
Country	England
Coordinates	51°29′05″N 2°32′27″W / 51.484853°N 2.540725°W / 51.484853; -2.540725
Completed	1861
Design and construction
Architect	Henry Crisp

Glenside campus is the home of the Faculty of Health and Applied Sciences at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. It is located on Blackberry Hill in the suburb of Fishponds. Its clocktower is a prominent landmark, visible from the M32 motorway.

By 1844, St Peter's Hospital for Pauper Lunatics, in what is now Castle Park, was overcrowded and not fit-for-purpose. The Corporation therefore ordered a new hospital to be built outside of the city in Stapleton. Opened in 1861, Bristol Lunatic Asylum was designed by Henry Crisp and built next to the co-located Stapleton Work House (now Blackberry Hill Hospital).

In 1914, the hospital was requisitioned by the War Office and renamed Beaufort War Hospital. 931 patients were transferred to other asylums in the West of England, with 45 patients remaining to work in the hospital grounds. Stanley Spencer worked as a medical orderly at the Beaufort from 1915 to 1916.

In 1919, following the cessation of hostilities, the hospital returned to its former mental health briefly, later becoming known as Glenside Hospital under the NHS reforms of the 1950s.

In January 1993, Glenside and neighbouring Manor Park Hospital merged to become the jointly named Blackberry Hill Hospital. Patients of Glenside were assessed for capability, with many placed within the Care in the Community programme, while the residual were moved into new buildings constructed on the former Manor Park site for their long term care.