North Devon Infirmary, Barnstaple, North Devon.  Trinity Church at right. Founded 1824, by a group under the direction of the Earl Fortescue of Castle Hill, Filleigh. (Lamplugh, Lois, Barnstaple: Town on the Taw,  South Molton, 2002, p.114) Wings added 1862 and 1883. Closed 1978 (Lamplugh, p.149). Later demolished.
<p>Kelly's Directory of Devon (1902): <i>"The North Devon Infirmary, a large and imposing building, surrounded by well laid-out grounds and situated near the Taw Vale parade, overlooking the river, was founded in 1825, and has been several times enlarged and remodelled from the designs of Mr. R. D. Gould, architect; a wing was added in 1862, and another in 1883, from a gift by the late Miss Basset, of Watermouth (Castle): large new reception rooms for out-patients have also been built near the lodge gates at the cost of the late Dr. R. Budd, and a children’s ward containing 12 cots was opened in 1896 at a cost of about £200. The infirmary is available for 85 patients, the annual expenditure being about £2,300; it is maintained entirely by voluntary contributions. The number of in-patients treated in 1900 was 654, and of out-patients 2,669"</i> (<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://forebears.co.uk/england/devon/barnstaple">[1]</a>). 
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Dr Richard Budd, MD, lived in a large house on Boutport Street, on the corner of today's Coronation Street. (See: Chanter, J.R., Memorials Descriptive and Historical, of the Church of St Peter, Barnstaple, with its other ecclesiastical antiquities, and an account of the conventual church of St Mary Magdalene, recently discovered. Barnstaple, 1882, p.139). Mr R.D. Gould of Northgate House, Barnstaple (demolished), was for 50 years the Borough Surveyor of Barnstaple (Lamplugh, p.149).
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