St Bernard's Hospital

The Grade II listing was made on 25 June 1985, and the entrance archway and two lodges, NHLE 1189532, the west lodge, NHLE 1079346, and the chapel, NHLE 1358806, are separate Grade II entries. Its brick boundary wall is part of the scheduled monument for the Hanwell lock flight, NHLE 1001963, so the wall is scheduled where the buildings are listed. William Alderson designed the asylum for 450 patients with space for 150 more, and it was full within six months of opening in 1831. John Conolly, its third superintendent, arrived in 1839 and had abolished mechanical restraint at Hanwell by September of that year, setting out the method in The Treatment of the Insane without Mechanical Restraints.