Crossley East (Manchester) Sanatorium: Delamere Forest

One of the first of the large institutions to be erected in England for the treatment of tuberculosis. It was given to the Manchester Consumption Hospital by Mr William Crossley. Together. Crossley and Hardisty visited Germany to investigate current European practice before the building was designed. The Crossley Sanatorium was eventually merged with the nearby Liverpool Sanatorium to form Crossley Hospital and re-named Crossley East.

SANATORIUM, DELAMERE - The foundation-stones of the new sanatorium at Delamere have just been laid. The hospital occupies a site of seventy acres in Delamere Forest, about three miles distant from Mouldsworth, Delamere, and Frodsham, at an altitude of 450 feet above the sea level, In addition to this building, which will have a frontage to the S.S.E. of 310 feet and provide accommodation for ninety patients and a resident medical officer, a detached “home” for the matron, housekeeper, nurses, and servants, forms part of the scheme. There are separate buildings for the laundry and mortuary. The patients’ rooms, all of Which will be on the front of the building, vary in size, there being four wards for six beds each, ten for four beds, the remainder being single bedrooms. Sitting rooms will be provided at each end for the patients of either sex. On the north side of the building on the ground floor, a dining hall will be provided, as well as a chapel seated for 120 persons. The building materials employed are Ruabon red brick and terra- cotta, the upper portions of the elevations being finished in “rough cast,” and the roofs covered with red tiles. The corridors will have a dado, 4 ft. 9 in. in height, of salt-glazed bricks, the walls above being finished in granite plaster, except where, as in the turrets, kitchen, stores, &c., they are faced throughout, above the dado level, with cream enamelled bricks. The whole of the corridor floors will be of steel and concrete construction, finished in terrazzo. The windows will open down to the floor. The work in connexion with the foundations of both the main building and nurses’ home is being done by Messrs. Gerrard & Sons, of Swinton, while the contractors for the super¬ structure are Messrs. James Hamilton & Son, of Altrincham, Mr. J. Broadbent being the resident clerk of works. The scheme is being carried out in accordance with designs prepared by Mr. W. Cecil Hardisty, architect, of Manchester. [Builder 16 October 1902 page 327]

Reference    British Architect 22 November 1901 Page ix - tenders
Reference    Builder 8 November 1901 Page 425 - tenders
Reference    Builder 16 October 1902 page 327 - foundation stone
Reference    Manchester Guardian 5 April 1905 with illustration
Reference    Builder 22 April 1905 Page 473 (Report taken from Manchester Guardian)
Reference    British Architect 28 April 1905 Page 304 – notes