Cossham Memorial Hospital

Cossham Memorial Hospital
Cossham Memorial Hospital
North Bristol NHS Trust
	Cossham Memorial Hospital
	Shown in Bristol
Geography
Location	Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Coordinates	51°28′08″N 2°30′58″W / 51.4688°N 2.5162°W
Organisation
Care system	Public NHS
Type	Community
Affiliated university	University of the West of England
Services
Emergency department	No Accident & Emergency
History
Opened	1907
Links
Website	www.nbt.nhs.uk/our-hospitals/cossham-hospital
Lists	Hospitals in England

Cossham Memorial Hospital is a community hospital, founded in 1907, in Hillfields, Bristol, England.^[1]^[2]

History edit

The hospital was built by Frederick Bligh Bond in a Queen Anne style between 1905 and 1907, as a memorial to Handel Cossham, a former MP and Mayor of Bath who died in 1890.^[3] Sited on Lodge Hill, the clock tower is the highest point in Bristol and can be seen for miles around.^[4] It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II listed building.^[5] Major renovation work was carried out at the hospital, finishing in 2012.^[6]^[7]^[8]

The services provided by North Bristol NHS Trust at Cossham include outpatients for various specialties and physiotherapy services.^[9]

Records of the Cossham Memorial Hospital are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 41171).^[10]

^ "Cossham Memorial Hospital, Bristol". Hospital Records Database. The National Archives. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ Bristol City Council. "Hillfields map" (PDF). Ward Finder. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 April 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
^ "Financial woes plagued hospital's early years". Bristol Evening Post. 25 June 2012. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
^ "Our Hospital histories". North Bristol NHS Trust. Archived from the original on 28 July 2007. Retrieved 19 November 2007.
^ Historic England. "Handel Cossham Memorial Hospital (1206237)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 10 April 2007.
^ "102-year-old Cossham hospital wins revamp approval". This is Bristol. 25 September 2009. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
^ "Cossham Hospital restoration at least one month behind schedule". Bristol Evening Post. 25 April 2012. Archived from the original on 21 April 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
^ "Home from home for dialysis patients at new-look hospital". Bristol Evening Post. 5 December 2012. Archived from the original on 2 May 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
^ "Cossham Hospital". NHS. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
^ "Cossham Memorial Hospital". Bristol Archives. Retrieved 27 July 2018.