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Royal Victoria Hospital Chapel

            This is all that remains of the Royal Victoria Hospital which was built between 1856-1863 when it took in its first patients.  Although it was a very attractive building, it was totally impracticable as a hospital.  Lord Palmerston, the then Prime Minister said "all consideration of what would best tend to the comfort and recovery of the patients has been sacrificed to the vanity of the architect, whose sole object has been to make a building which should cut a dash when looked at from Southampton River". 

We live on the other side of the water from Southampton.

It was used during the Boer Wars, WW1 and the beginning of WW11.  It then became an Army Medical School.  It eventually closed in  1958.  I have put a copy of an old postcard in the first comment below, showing what it would have looked like when it was first built and another photo of the whole building as it looks today in the second comment box

Taken in: UK / England / Eastleigh District / Netley (show map)

Taken on: May 23, 2024

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Camera: Google Pixel 8, f/1.7, 1/1244 sec, 6.9mm, ISO 22 (more info) (hide info)

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