North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)

The hospital was built predominately to provide for Welsh Pauper Lunatics, the majority of whom were monoglot Welsh speakers, so that they could be cared for and treated in their own language instead of being sent to English Asylums.

The hospital served the counties of Denbighshire, Flintshire, Caernarvonshire, Meironethshire and Anglesey and at its peak in the 1950s catered for 1,500 patients and employed around 1,000 staff.

The Asylum's construction began in 1844 and was completed in 1848. Enlargement and alterations occured between 1862-1863. It closed in 1995, and since then it has suffered from vandalism, weather damage and theft.