Follower of James Pollard 1792-1867

St Thomas’s Hospital in Lambeth dates back to 1215, when Peter de Rupibus Bishop of Winchester erected a building to be used as a hospital that was dedicated to St. Thomas the Apostle. The plans for the new hospital seen here were drawn up in 1865, and Queen Victoria laid the foundation-stone with a golden trowel in September 1868; she opened it three years later in 1871. Nearly half of the site of the hospital was reclaimed from the river and the building had a frontage of about seventeen hundred feet. The building was designed by the architect H Currie, and consisted of eight large red-brick stone-faced pavilions, united by arcades in the Palladian style, which were joined together by a double corridor. It could provide six hundred and fifty beds for patients.