Site: St Bartholomew's Hospital - Astley (1 memorial)
EC1, Giltspur Street
From the British Medical Journal, 15 May 1909, we learn that the pathology block of St Bartholomew's Hospital was opened on 7 May 1909. It occupies the site of the house which Joanna Astley rented from the hospital on her retirement in circa 1430. This house was first replaced with a row of shops which were then demolished to make way for the pathology block.
This pathology block is not to be confused with Barts Pathology Museum, built by E. B. l'Anson's father, also an architect, in 1878-9. See Londonist for photos of the inside of that and some of its gruesome contents.
