The current building was designed by noted ecclesiastical architect Sir Charles Nicholson at a cost of £45,000 and included an outpatients' department and inpatient accommodation of 90 beds.

The hospital closed in 1981 and is now a dormitory building for the London branch of the University of Notre Dame.

The hospital was founded by Dr John Bunnell Davis in 1816 as the Universal Dispensary for Children.

[1][2] In this first incarnation the hospital was located at St Andrew's Hill, in the now demolished Doctors' Commons in the City of London.

[4] It was sold the following year, and for the next three decades was the central London campus of Schiller International University.