Fulbourn Hospital 2012-02-10

Seen from the top of Foxhole Joint. Opened in 1858 as the County Pauper Lunatic Asylum for Cambridgeshire, the Isle of Ely and the Borough of Cambridge. The original Jacobean-style building whose gables can be seen to the left of the tower was designed by George Fowler Jones of York [Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire (2nd edn., 1970), pp.389-90].