St Crispin's Hospital was a large psychiatric facility on the outskirts of Duston village in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.
[1] It was designed by Robert Griffiths using a corridor layout and opened as the Northampton Mental Hospital in 1876.
[1] The hospital was used as a filming location in the 1977 series of Doctor Who, in a six-part story called The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
[4] The children's block and the superintendents' house were developed by Taylor Wimpey for residential use between 2005 and 2008[5] and a small area was applied for the construction of Berrywood Hospital, a modern mental health facility.
[6] In August 2014, over 80 Firefighters responded to an emergency call as a large fire broke out.