Mrs Dalia V Nield FRCS(Ed) FRCS(Eng)
CONSULTANT PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGEON
Formerly Consultant at
St Bartholemew´s and Homerton Hospitals
5 Devonshire Place London W1G 6HL Telephone 020 7616 7693
The Friends of the Great Hall and Archive of St Bartholemew's Hospital
Ring 020 7618 1729 to sign up as a Friend.
The Friends keep their funds
with the Barts and London Charity
(Registered Charity No 212563)
at 12 Cock Lane, London EC1A 9BU.
Between 1730 and 1769 Barts was rebuilt in four blocks enclosing the Square. The architect was James Gibbs (1682 to 1754) whose surviving work includes St Martin's in the Fields in London, the Radcliffe Camera at Oxford and the Senate House at Cambridge.
The North Block was built first and includes the Great Hall and the fine oak staircase which leads to it past Hogarth's great paintings of the Pool of Bethesda and the Good Samaritan. As a purely voluntary organisation Barts needed the Hall for the meetings of its governing body and to entertain patrons and benefactors. Inscriptions on the walls record that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert came to dinner there, as they did with other institutions in the City and the Inns of Court.
All round the Hall subscription boards record the donations which sustained the Hospital and the names of Victoria and Albert are there. The gifts are recorded in the old money, guineas and pounds shillings and pence, with many odd amounts representing the residue of estates or shares of round sums.
We treasure the Hall at Barts as a great building and a vivid record of our history.
The North Block was built first and includes the Great Hall and the fine oak staircase which leads to it past Hogarth's great paintings of the Pool of Bethesda and the Good Samaritan. As a purely voluntary organisation Barts needed the Hall for the meetings of its governing body and to entertain patrons and benefactors. Inscriptions on the walls record that Queen Victoria and Prince Albert came to dinner there, as they did with other institutions in the City and the Inns of Court.
All round the Hall subscription boards record the donations which sustained the Hospital and the names of Victoria and Albert are there. The gifts are recorded in the old money, guineas and pounds shillings and pence, with many odd amounts representing the residue of estates or shares of round sums.
We treasure the Hall at Barts as a great building and a vivid record of our history.