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Sunnyside Hospital
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Sunnyside Asylum, Christchurch. Completed in 1891, this was one of Mountfort's last major works. Designed in a chateauesque Gothic, the large windows created the air of a country house rather than place of incarceration.
Geography
Location Christchurch, Canterbury Region, New Zealand
Coordinates 43°33′03″S 172°35′34″E / 43.5509°S 172.5929°E / -43.5509; 172.5929
Services
Emergency department No
History
Founded 1863
Closed 1999

Sunnyside Hospital (1863–1999) was the first mental asylum to be built in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was initially known as Sunnyside Lunatic Asylum, and its first patients were 17 people who had previously been kept in the Lyttelton gaol. In 2007, Hilmorton Hospital is just one of the mental health services that are based on the old Sunnyside Hospital grounds.

Architecture

Sunnyside was primarily designed by the New Zealand Victorian Gothic architect, Benjamin Mountfort, with an administration building designed by John Campbell.

Staff

Edward William Seager was the first superintendent of Sunnyside Hospital.

In 1995, four years before the hospital's closure, nurses walked off the job because of dangerous working conditions.

Chatham Cup

A football team largely made up of staff from the hospital, was the first Christchurch champions of the Chatham Cup in 1926.

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