St Clement's Hospital
St Clement's Hospital was a mental health hospital located in the Bow and was situated in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets,
History
The building opened in a former workhouse building as the City of London Union Infirmary in 1874. The palatial design of the workhouse had been created by architect Richard Tress and had cost over £55,000 to construct, boasted central heating, a dining-hall measuring 100 feet by 50 feet, Siberian marble pillars, and a chapel with stained glass windows and a new organ. It closed in 1909 but re-opened as a hospital for chronically ill people becoming known as the City of London Institution in 1912 and as the Bow Institution in 1913.At the time of transfer to the London County Council in 1930 the hospital had 744 beds. The Master was H. C. Stuttle, the medical officer E. T. Pinhay, and Mrs E. Edwins was Matron.
It became a psychiatric unit, known by its most commonly adopted name of 'St Clement's Hospital' in 1936. The west side of the site suffered extensive bomb damage during the Second World War, destroying the chapel and the sites initial symmetry. The hospital joined the newly formed National Health Service in 1948 and then came under the same management as the London Hospital in 1968. After services were transferred to a new Adult Mental Health Facility at Mile End Hospital, the hospital closed in February 2006.