Visit Date June 2005 / May 2006
Denbigh
Architect ?
Opened 14-11-1848 (how accurate is that!)
Patients Over 1500 at its peak
Closed 1995
Other Prince Charles was treated to a tour of the hospital chapel and grounds in 2004
While trying to find a way into the site we managed to walk through a woman’s back garden, she was sat outside having tea with a friend and was actually a mine of information, she wished us well and we went on our way.
The size of the site is as impressive as the structure itself, it’s huge! Since it was first built it has been added to on many occasions, I believe when it was first built it housed just over 200 patients, within a few years of opening it was necessary to make additional wards and again more ward were added in the inter war years. In the original plans there was a padded cell although I expect it was long ago removed in the many remodels the hospital has undergone. 
Most of the building has been internally stripped and in some places there are no floors at all. Tiles have been taken from the walls, someone has been stripping the place and in some areas it seemed as though no body had been in for years. Trying to reach the tower we were astounded to find a barrier in our way, this was newly put in you could still smell the fresh cut wood, someone defiantly did not want us to get up those stairs.
We ventured though the maintenance area and even found the remains of old stables which had been used more recently as storage areas.
The chapel is tucked away on the hill and is surprisingly small for such a large asylum, internally hardly anything is left, the floor has been 
totally stripped and no church like features remain, these were shipped to a nearby hospital just before closure, although when you look up the ceiling is still pristine.
The future of Denbigh is still undecided, Prince Charles visited the site in 2004 and has put this former asylum on his Phoenix Trust List which endeavors to return building like these to there former glory.