Maker(s)

• Wallace Marchment, Architect

• Robert S Jellings, Builder

Costs

£90,000

Sponsor Type

public

Sponsored By

The three-section bronze plaque listed the major contributors to the building costs as: The Peterborough Hospital Saturday Fund £10,000 The Soke of Peterborough Red Cross Committee £10,769 The British Red Cross Society £ 3,000 Donors to the Building Fund of £50 and upwards (list of names) Providers of equipment (list of names)

Additional Cost/Sponsorship Information

Land to the value of £5,500 was donated by Alderman J.H. Bunting for the site of the Hospital.

Maintenance History

In December 2010 the site at Thorpe Road/Midland Road closed as a Hospital. The three-sectioned bronze plaque listing subscribers to the Hospital was temporarily removed to a secure storage area for safe-keeping, pending decisions regarding the redevelopment of the entire site. Plans for the major redevelopment were subsequently agreed, on condition that the 'core building' of the original War Memorial Hospital on Midland Road (including the stones inscribed re its foundation and ceremonial opening) would be preserved, in light of its historical importance as the City's primary memorial to its WW1 casualties. During demolition of adjacent structures, it was found that the Memorial Hospital's 'core building' could not be saved intact. Its original fascia wall was therefore shored-up and retained, and the remainder was rebuilt 'like-for-like' (i.e. using materials that matched the original bricks, rooftiles etc), so that the final structure resembles the original as closely as possible. The original foundation stone and ceremonial opening stone, together with the bronze plaque listing subscribers to the Memorial Hospital, were installed in the foyer, where they are now on display. The resulting building is now the administration block of the West Town Primary Academy, which ceremonially opened in November 2016.

Ceremonies

Foundation Stone

25 July 1925

G.C.W. Fitzwilliam Esq, J.P., D.L. laid the foundation stone.

Opened

14 June 1928

Field Marshal Sir William Robertson B.T, G.C.E., G.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., D.S.O. ceremonially opened the main War Memorial Hospital.

Opened

28 June 1929

H.R.H. Prince George (later Duke of Kent) opened the newly-built Children's Wing of the Hospital.

Opened

November 2016

The redeveloped site ceremonially opened as the West Town Primary Academy (whose administration block is the renovated core building of the former Memorial Hospital ).

Previous Location(s)

Custodian

Cambridge Meridian Academies Trust

Components

Building

Made from: Brick

Condition: Good

Door

Height: 600

Width: 2150

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Foundation stone

Height: 570

Width: 960

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Other structure

Height: 570

Width: 960

Made from: Stone

Condition: Good

Plaque

Height: c2000mm

Width: c900mm

Made from: Bronze

Condition: Good

Frame

Made from: Marble - Green

Condition: Good