[1] It is managed by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.

The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826.

[2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone.

[4] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843[2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877.

Men and women were originally segregated on different sides of the hospital with this practice continuing into the 1950s.