[2] The original building was a grand symmetrical red brick Tudor-style composition enclosing a large courtyard, built to the designs of Edward Lapidge, the county surveyor.

The committee found that at least two of the charge nurses showed themselves prone to outbursts of ill-temper which expressed itself in violence.

[5] In 2004 John Barrett, who had paranoid schizophrenia, walked out of the hospital and stabbed Dennis Finnegan, a cyclist, to death.

Much of the original hospital building is now disused, and there are plans to convert this to a residential development, "Springfield Village".

[4] Proceeds are being used to create new state-of-the- art mental health centres at Springfield and at Tolworth Hospital in Surbiton.