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<\/a><\/p>\nDevon County Pauper Lunatic Asylum, Exeter<\/h2>\n
The Corridor Plan was a long running style of Asylum layout primarily used between 1830 and 1890; they are laid out with the administration block at the centre of the site with the wards flanking it on either side.\u00a0 This allowed for the easy segregation of the sexes and it also aided in the ease of communication throughout the Asylum.\u00a0 This layout varies throughout its lifetime, some buildings such as Stone House has the wards based around the main corridor and followed a linear layout.\u00a0 Others such as St Johns did not follow such a linear corridor and instead it spread around the central services.<\/p>\n The Pavilion Plan saw the asylum laid out in a detached of semi-detached block formation.\u00a0 There were three main types of the pavilion layout, they were:<\/p>\n The pavilion plan consisted of a long linear corridor extending either side of the administration block, the ward blocks were orientated perpendicular to the corridor and attached at their ends; the stores\/water tower could located centrally or remotely.\u00a0\u00a0 There were only a few of these examples built around the country, but Hellesdon Hospital & the Annexe at Lancaster Moor resemble how the layout would have looked.<\/p>\n The Dual Pavilion consisted of the administration and services blocks flanked by long corridors, which in turn were flanked by the ward blocks.\u00a0 This design was intended to make the segregation of difficult cases easy; however due to the large size it made their operation difficult.<\/p>\n This was a rare layout for an asylum, it was the intermediate between the Pavilion plan and the Echelon plan; it consisted of a semi-circular corridor with the blocks on the outside and the services in the middle.\u00a0 There were only two examples of this type of asylum built through the country.<\/p>\n The Echelon plan superseded the Pavilion Plan around 1880;\u00a0 it rose in popularity due to the arrangement of the wards, offices and services which were all off of a large corridor.\u00a0 There were two\u00a0 main type:<\/p>\n This was the earlier form of the echelon plan, it consisted of all the services and wards being spread out across a large site.\u00a0 It was essentially a set up of the pavilion blocks interconnect with short corridors which came off a larger main corridor.\u00a0 There were only two examples of this layout being built, with only one reaching full completion, High Royds in Menston – which predates the layout at Claybury by three years.<\/p>\n This was the plan that revolutionised the design and construction of asylums throughout the UK as it was the most practicable type; it led GT Hine to become the most accomplished of all the asylum architects.\u00a0 Its design kept the long corridors of the Broad Arrow plan, but the wards were moved closer to it, removing the shorter unnecessary corridors; the services were still central to the asylum site.\u00a0 It also gave the asylum a light and airy feel to it, which was important to the Mental Health regime.\u00a0 There were two types of the Compact Arrow plan, one where the wards where set away from the corridors as Pavilion type ward blocks.\u00a0 The other was where the wards were all conjoined, to form one large building – this allowed for staff to move very quickly through the buildings – the differences can be seen below. Later examples of the Compact Arrow plan also included villas on the outskirts of the asylum for epileptic and chronic cases; this led to the further development of the colony layout with open corridors.<\/p>\n The Colony Plan consists of the blocks being dispersed around the asylum without the traditional long corridor connecting them; the administration and services buildings were still placed at the centre of the complex; they weren’t used for major asylums.\u00a0 Later complexes such as West Park in Epsom implemented a colony layout but with echelon principles.\u00a0 One such examples is St Ebbas, Epsom<\/p>\n Information was taken from<\/a><\/p>\nCorridor Plan<\/h1>\n
City of London Asylum, Stone House, Kent<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nLittlemore Asylum, Oxford<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nSt Johns Asylum, Lincoln<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nPavilion Plan<\/h1>\n
Standard Pavilion<\/h2>\n
Hellesdon Hospital, Norwich<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nLancaster Moor Annexe, Lancaster<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nDual Pavilion<\/h2>\n
Whalley Asylum, Calderstones<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nSt James Hospital, Portsmouth<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nRadial Pavilion<\/h2>\n
Cane Hill Hospital, Coulsdon<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nSt Luke’s, Whittingham Hospital<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nEchelon Plan<\/h1>\n
Broad Arrow<\/h2>\n
High Royds Hospital, Menston<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nCompact Arrow<\/h2>\n
Goodmayes\u00a0Hospital, West Ham<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nSeveralls Hospital, Colchester<\/h2>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nColony Plan<\/h1>\n
St Ebba’s Colony, Epsom<\/h2>\n
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\nRoberts, Andrew 1981- The Lunacy Commission
\nMiddlesex University web, London.<\/a><\/p>\n