page_title: Jessop Hospital
section_title: Early history
hierarchical_section_title: Jessop Hospital / History / Early history
caption_attribution_description: English: Doorway to Jessop Hospital for Women, now part of the School of Music, University of Sheffield
context_page_description: The Jessop Hospital for Women was a hospital in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. At the time of its closure in 2001, it was managed by the Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust.
context_section_description: Following a large donation by Thomas Jessop, a wealthy steelworks-owner, a new building was commissioned to replace the old Sheffield Hospital for Women at Figtree Lane, which had only six beds.
  The new facility was designed by John Dodsley Webster in the Gothic Revival style. The building cost £26,000 – a lot of money at the time – all paid for by Jessop. It opened as the Jessop Hospital for Women in 1878. An extension, known as the Edwardian wing, was completed in 1902. Between 1927 and 1972 the hospital had a 45 bed annexe at Norton Hall known as the Firth Auxiliary Hospital.
  Operation of the hospital was transferred from the Sheffield Health Authority (dissolved on 1 April 1992) to the Central Sheffield University Hospitals NHS Trust on 1 November 1991, who continued to operate the hospital until its closure.
  The hospital was in the news in 1998 when Diane Blood gave birth to a baby boy, having been inseminated using her husband's sperm, which had been taken from his body while he was unconscious on life support, shortly before his death.  A prolonged legal case gave her the right to do this, despite not having the written consent of her husband.
caption: Main Doorway to the original Victorian wing
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