ABSTRACT
From the 1790S onwards, the Governors increasingly turned their attention to the state of the Hospital. Under the weight of evidence produced that the building was old and unsuitable, that Moorfields was no longer an ideal site, and that at the very least expensive renovations were needed, a decision was made to move Bethlem to a new home. This was to be the Hospital's third incarnation, although the new building at St George's Fields, Southwark still owed much to Hooke's seventeenth-century design.
