Christine Stevenson Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture.

Christine Stevenson Medicine and Magnificence: British Hospital and Asylum Architecture, 1660-1815 modern Haven: Yale University Press. 2000 Pp viii, 312 $4500 ISBN 0-300-08536-2

immediately after his restoration and in large part to commemorate his reign, Charles II began the construction of several recent royal palaces, but none were complet according to him or his successors. Instead the great secular cenotaphs of the Restoration were hospitals--Bethlem Hospital for the insane in London (1675-76) by means of Robert Hooke, and the royal military hospitals in Chelsea (1682-89) and Greenwich (begun 1696)

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