St Lawrence Hospital () was a specialist plastic surgery and burns hospital on the west side of St Lawrence Road in Chepstow, Wales.
History St Lawrence Hospital was opened in 1942, on the opposite side of the road to Mount Pleasant Hospital, and was used by the War Department throughout the rest of the Second World War as a military hospital; patients included Italian prisoners of war. In September 1949, it was taken over by the Welsh Hospital Board and the Newport and East Monmouthshire Hospital Management Committee, to form a plastic surgery unit. Expansion in the 1950s brought the number of beds to 124, including a burns unit for which it became particularly well known.Ivor Waters, The Town of Chepstow, 1972, p.191 The lead surgeon in charge of the hospital at the time was Emlyn Evans Lewis (1905–1969). "Lewis, Emlyn Evans", Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 28 October 2020 "Lewis, Emlyn Evans", Royal College of Surgeons of England, 26 August 2014. Retrieved 28 October 2020
In 1994 the burns and plastic surgery units were transferred to Morriston Hospital, Swansea. The Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery. Retrieved 17 March 2015 The hospital was later demolished and the site used for housing.
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