ABSTRACT
Bethlem's buildings.13 These views wefe shared within the Hospital. For Lionel Faudel-Phillips, the recently appointed Treasurer, this became an obsession. He was convinced that Bethlem was 'a totally inadequate and unsuitable place for the care and u earmem of the mentally ill', He dreamed of a 'fitter and lighter Bethlem', a desire shared by Sir Charles Wakefield of Wakefield & Co., the producer of Castrol oil, city luminary and the Hospital's President. 14 They felt the only way this could be achieved was to move Bethlem to a new greenfield site and rebuild.
