st. crispin lunatic asylum | 85 things you never knew about lunatic asylums
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46. Early asylums were built as highly centralised blocks, heavily influenced by the prison architecture at the time. As the decades passed, the classifications moved from the various ad-hoc designs, through the corridor layout, radiating pavilions, through to the broad and narrow arrow echelon asylums, ending up with a loosely connected village of villas.