29-579: The Devonshire Dome building (previously known as the Devonshire Royal Hospital ) is a Grade II* listed 18th-century former stable block in Buxton , Derbyshire . It was built by John Carr of York and extended by architect Robert Rippon Duke , who added what was then the world's largest unsupported dome , with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft). It is now the site of the Buxton Campus of
58-551: A commercial venue and visitor attraction. As a university campus, it has been the base for the University of Derby’s degree programmes in Outdoor Leadership and Adventure Sports Coaching, Events Management, Hospitality Management, Tourism Management, Professional Culinary Arts and Spa & Wellness Management. In October 2019, the university announced that the dome would cease to be a campus for university courses from 2022, when
87-740: The Alhambra in Granada. In 1859, the Buxton Bath Charity had persuaded the Duke of Devonshire to allow part of the building – by then accommodating nothing like the 110 horses for which it was designed – to be converted to a charity hospital for the use of the ‘sick poor’ coming in for treatment from the ‘Cottonopolis’ of Lancashire and Yorkshire . The Devonshire estate architect, Henry Currey , architect for St Thomas’s Hospital in London , converted two thirds of
116-489: The Nicholson Institute of Science and Technology . The college was dissolved as an independent entity in 2012 when it was merged into the University of Derby. Even before the mergers with High Peak College and Leek College, the University of Derby had a long history of providing further and adult education, having been founded as a teacher training College in 1851 and merging with various different colleges throughout
145-721: The Thermal and Natural Baths and the Pavilion Gardens . Vera Brittain (author of Testament of Youth ) trained as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse at the Devonshire Hospital in 1915, caring for soldiers wounded during World War I . Over 5,000 soldiers were treated in Buxton. In 1934 the establishment was give permission by King George V to become known as the Devonshire Royal Hospital. The Buxton Bath Charity
174-543: The University of Derby . Built between 1780 and 1789, the original building was designed by John Carr of York for William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire . Octagonal in shape, it housed up to 120 horses and the servants of the guests of the Crescent Hotel, built in combination as part of the plan to promote Buxton as a spa town. The interior façade was described as an almost exact copy of The Palace of Christian Kings at
203-623: The West Baden Springs Hotel designed by Harrison Albright in 1902 (59.45 metres/195.0 ft), the record is now routinely surpassed today by space frame domes, such as the Georgia Dome (256 metres/840 ft), but the Devonshire is still the largest unsupported dome in the UK. The dome has a floor area of 1,534 square metres (16,510 sq ft). Further changes were undertaken, with
232-593: The Buxton Bath Charity for the treatment of the poor. The hospital was built in the converted stable block of The Crescent . The building is now known as the Devonshire Dome and it is the site of the Buxton Campus of the University of Derby . The Buxton Bath Charity was founded in 1779 to pay for poor people to have access to the healing waters of Buxton, for the treatment of rheumatism , gout and various other conditions. All visitors to Buxton's hotels and lodging houses were expected to contribute one shilling to
261-466: The Buxton Cottage Hospital (opened in 1912) for minor injuries. Buxton %26 Leek College Buxton & Leek College is a college of Further and Higher Education operating at their campuses and facilities in Buxton , Derbyshire , Leek , Staffordshire and Derby, Derbyshire . The college is part of the University of Derby . Buxton & Leek College was formed in 2013 by
290-541: The Devonshire Dome and associated surrounding buildings. The university received £4.7m from the Heritage Lottery Fund for the restoration and redevelopment project. Refurbished and reopened in 2003, the main building and its surrounding Victorian era villas are now part of the University of Derby. The Devonshire Dome functioned as a campus of the University of Derby and of Buxton & Leek College , and as
319-525: The Outdoors, Adventure, Spa and Wellness courses will close and the rest of Centre for Contemporary Hospitality and Tourism courses will move to the university's main campus in Derby. The dome continues to be an education campus for Buxton & Leek College . As a commercial venue, it is frequently used for large weddings, and has hosted celebrity weddings, including that of Hollyoaks star Kieron Richardson . Open to
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#1732859575351348-419: The University of Derby bringing together all of their Further Education operations into one branded entity. Prior to this, the university ran Further Education under the name 'Buxton College’, with operations at the Buxton Campus and University of Derby's Kedleston Road site. After Leek College was merged into the university in 2012 both the 'Buxton College’ and 'Leek College’ names were dropped and replaced with
377-483: The building into a hospital. In 1881, the Buxton Bath Charity trustees, under their chairman Dr William Henry Robertson , persuaded William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire to give them the use of the whole building in exchange for providing new stables elsewhere in the town. Local architect Robert Rippon Duke was commissioned to design a 300-bed hospital to rival Bath and Harrogate for charity medical provision. The Cotton Districts Convalescent fund put up £25,000 for
406-466: The charity and in 1865 Dr Robertson became chairman of The Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity. In 1879, the Buxton Bath Charity trustees persuaded William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire to give them the use of the whole building in exchange for providing new stables elsewhere in the town. Local architect Robert Rippon Duke was commissioned to design a hospital to rival Bath's and Harrogate's facilities for charity medical care. The stables on
435-403: The charity and sign the subscription book. In 1822 there were nearly 800 patients admitted through the charity, which paid for board and lodging, medicines and water treatments for up to five weeks. By the 1850s the numbers exceeded 1000. In 1859, the Buxton Bath Charity had persuaded the Duke of Devonshire to allow part of the building (by then accommodating nothing like the 110 horses for which it
464-471: The city of Derby, Buxton & Leek College runs a variety of Access to HE and Foundation programme pathways at the University of Derby's Kedleston Road site (Access to HE is also run at the Buxton and Leek Campuses) The college offers academic and vocational courses, including apprenticeships , NVQs , BTECs , GCSEs , Access to HE and HNC / HNDs , as well as a range of short/leisure courses. A limited number of undergraduate degree programmes are run by
493-455: The clock tower (a tribute to the hospital's chairman Dr William Henry Robertson ) and lodge completed in 1882, surgical wards in 1897, spa baths in 1913, and the dining room and kitchens in 1921. The building became known as the Devonshire Royal Hospital in 1934. It was the last of the eight hydropathic hospitals in England to close, in 2000. On 31 January 2001, the University of Derby acquired
522-564: The college is situated on Stockwell Street in Leek town centre at the site of what was Leek College. Since the merger with University of Derby the site was extensively re-developed between 2013 and 2015. Older buildings were demolished to make way for new purpose built buildings for art and design, engineering, and construction courses. The £7million cost of the development was funded by the Skills Funding Agency and University of Derby . In
551-422: The college. These courses are validated by University of Derby and are run at the Buxton and Leek Campuses. Students can progress onto higher education through the University of Derby or any other university. A bursary of £1000 is available to any Buxton & Leek College student progressing to a degree at the University of Derby. The college management structure currently includes a senior management team at
580-759: The conversion. The steel structure was clad in slate , and proposed to be supported by 22 curved steel arms. However, during construction the Tay Bridge disaster occurred on 28 December 1879, and so the number of arms was revised upwards. Included in Rippon Duke's design what was the world's largest unsupported dome with a diameter of 44.2 metres (145 ft); it surpassed that of the Pantheon (43 metres/141 ft) and St Peter's Basilica (42 metres/138 ft) in Rome , and St Paul's Cathedral (34 metres/112 ft). Overtaken by
609-568: The ground floor were converted into hospital rooms by 1882. Included in Rippon Duke's design was the world's largest unsupported dome with a diameter of 44 metres (144 ft), now known as the Devonshire Dome. 300 hospital beds "for the relief of the poor" were now accommodated in the building. The Cotton Districts Convalescent fund put up £25,000 for the conversion. By 1882 the hospital had its own baths building in George Street, although these were closed in 1914 when new mineral baths were built on
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#1732859575351638-495: The hospital site. Further changes were undertaken, with the clock tower (a tribute to the hospital's chairman Dr William Henry Robertson) and lodge completed in 1882, the Jubilee surgical wards in 1897 and the dining room and kitchens extension in 1921. King Edward VII (a friend of the 8th Duke of Devonshire ) and Queen Alexandra came to Buxton in 1905 to tour the Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity. The royals also visited
667-477: The mid-2000s the college was relocated to the refurbished Devonshire Dome in Buxton town centre, and was officially opened by Prince Charles in 2006. At this point it was renamed 'Buxton College’. Leek College can trace its history back to 1868 when the Leek School of Art was founded in the town. Leek College of Further Education was formed in 1981 from the merger of the Leek School of Arts and Crafts and
696-420: The new name 'Buxton & Leek College’. Buxton College was originally named High Peak College , which was an independent FE College up until 1998, when it was dissolved as an independent entity and merged into the University of Derby. High Peak College originally opened in 1955 in buildings in Buxton town centre, before moving out of the town centre to Harpur Hill in 1964 into what had been RAF buildings. In
725-503: The public, the space houses cafés, a restaurant and study spaces, and visitors can observe the swing of a Foucault pendulum during certain times of the year. On 23 October 2015, the venue played host to Jack Massey's defeat of Gogita Gorgiladze for the vacant WBC Youth Silver Title. Devonshire Royal Hospital The Devonshire Royal Hospital was established as the Devonshire Hospital in 1859 in Buxton , Derbyshire by
754-507: The top, with curriculum leaders below overseeing operation of courses and subject areas. The college is led by the director of FE & Skills, Heather Marks from 1st July 2024 following the retirement of the Principal Len Tildsley on 28th March 2024. The college is governed by a sub-committee of the University of Derby's governing council The Association of Colleges (AoC) briefs that the running of Buxton & Leek College by
783-498: The twentieth century, before achieving University status in 1992. The Buxton Campus of the college is situated within the Devonshire Dome , with outdoor sports facilities at Northwood House in Buxton (now closed), sports and gym facilities at the former High Peak College site in Harpur Hill (now closed) and a "specialist training centre for Motor Vehicle Engineering and Welding" at Harpur Hill Industrial Estate. The Leek Campus of
812-607: Was designed) to be converted to a charity hospital for the use of the ‘sick poor’ coming in for treatment from the ‘ Cottonopolis ’ of Lancashire and Yorkshire . The Devonshire estate architect, Henry Currey (who designed St Thomas's Hospital in London ), converted two thirds of the Great Stables (built by John Carr of York ) into a hospital with 120 beds for the poor. The charity became The Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity . Sir Charles Scudamore and Dr William Henry Robertson were both honorary physicians for
841-646: Was incorporated into the National Health Service in 1948 and from then the Devonshire Royal Hospital provided treatments for acute conditions, rheumatism and allied diseases, orthopaedics and rehabilitation. The Devonshire Royal Hospital was the last of the eight hydropathic hospitals in England to close, in 2000. There are currently two hospitals in Buxton: the Cavendish Hospital (opened in 1967) for various services including geriatric healthcare and
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