History
It was founded in 1856 by Cardinal Wiseman and the Sisters of Mercy nurses as a nursing home next to the Catholic Church of St John of Jerusalem in Great Ormond Street
When it moved out of Bloomsbury to t John’s Wood, the church was taken down and rebuilt brick-by-brick at the new site
It remains a privately-run charity outside the National Health Service (NHS)
It is the UK’s foremost Catholic hospital, though it still treats patients regardless of their denomination
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What was reforming about it?
It accepted non-Catholic patients
It was one of the earliest of the medical establishments which increasingly took over Queen Square area from the middle of the nineteenth century
Where in Bloomsbury
It was in Great Ormond Street, next to the Catholic Church of St John of Jerusalem
It sold its Bloomsbury premises in 1897 to the neighbouring Hospital for Sick Children, opening purpose-built premises in 1901 in St John’s Wood
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