 It is located on the same site as the Manchester Royal Infirmary and St Mary's Hospital for Women and Children.The hospital was founded in 1814 on the initiative of William James Wilson and opened in King Street the following year.It moved to Faulkner Street in 1827, to Princess Street in 1874 and to St John's Street in 1882, before re-locating to a facility designed by Pennington & Bridgen in Oxford Road which was built between 1884 and 1886.