Berkshire Reading and Newbury Lunatic Asylum (laterly known as Fair Mile Hospital), Cholsey

NOTES: The additions to John Foulston's Radial Building by Wightwick opened in 1844 and comprise the superintendent's house or administration block and the three-storey block behind known as the High Building. The Radial Building and administration block still exist, converted into residences. This design is one of a number of drawings bound into five volumes entitled 'Architectural works of George Wightwick', made between 1832 and 1850. Wightwick instructed his articled pupils to make this detailed set of retrospective drawings to illustrate every building of importance he had designed. The drawings were intended to serve both as a record of Wightwick's completed buildings and as a method of conveying to his students the design process from initial working design to finished structure.

NOTES: Both the Belfast and Londonderry (Derry) asylums were built to the same design, with the Belfast asylum opening on 1 May 1829 and the one in Londonderry (Derry) on 24 July 1829.

SOURCE: House of Commons Select Committee appointed to consider of provision being made for the better regulation of madhouses in England. First, second, third, and fourth reports, from the Committee on Madhouses in England (London, 1819), pl. II

NOTES: In 1846 Wightwick began designing a further building, this time for male patients only. It opened in 1849. Later called Williams House it is now converted into residences. This design is one of a number of drawings bound into five volumes entitled 'Architectural works of George Wightwick', made between 1832 and 1850. Wightwick instructed his articled pupils to make this detailed set of retrospective drawings to illustrate every building of importance he had designed. The drawings were intended to serve both as a record of Wightwick's completed buildings and as a method of conveying to his students the design process from initial working design to finished structure. Design for additions to the Pauper County Lunatic Asylum, Bodmin: plan showing John Foulston's original structure with added elements by George Wightwick.