Building record 1160/58/1 - Friendly Society Medical Institute, Broad Street

Built 1883, constructed from brick with a slate roof. Dutch gable onto Broad Street. The Broad Street building functioned as a dispensary.

{1} Circa 1883 Friendly Society's Medical Institute in Broad Street; 2 storey brick building with slate roof; interior wooden partitions & panelling; still in use in 1966

{2} Standing building; Friendly Society's Medical Institute.

{3} A Friendly Societites Medical Institute was established in 1872 and a premises taken up in St Giles Street. In 1883, the society opened a dispensary on Broad Street.

<1> Starmer G.H., 1966, CBA Record Cards: Industrial Archaeology in Northamptonshire, (checked) (Recording Form (Not SMR)). SNN1626.

<2> Starmer G.H., 1973, National Register of Industrial Monuments, (checked) (Catalogue). SNN571.

<3> Ingram, M., 2021, Friendly Societies Medical Institute, Broad Street, Northampton (Website). SNN116709.

<4> R. L. Greenall, 2010, Mutuality in Victorian Northampton: The Friendly Societies’ Medical Institute, p. 68-74 (Article). SNN116785.

Record last edited

Mar 28 2025 3:36PM