Country Images Magazine North Edition November 2017 | Page 19

The Lost Houses
of Derbyshire
by Maxwell Craven
Th e Full Street front of Th e Devonshire Hospital in May 1855 as photographed by Richard Keene.
[Derby Museums Trust]
THE
DEVONSHIRE HOSPITAL
DERBY
Someone mentioned to me the other day that there were many other
lost houses of historic and architectural importance apart from country
mansions and town gentry houses and why didn’t I write about something
just slightly different every now and again?
Well, often the problem is that a paucity of images prevents one from doing
so, but the other day I was going through a folio of drawings and came
across a re-constructed elevation of the Devonshire Hospital in Full Street,
beautifully drawn by the later Edward Saunders. It occurred to me that
here was a building designed and built to the highest standards to house a
specifi c group of people which richly deserved to be chronicled.
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