Keith Downes Young (12 September 1848 - 1 December 1929) was an English architect best known for designing hospitals and school sanatoria.
Biography Keith Downes Young was born in King's Road, Richmond, Surrey on 12 September 1848. He attended Tonbridge School, after which, in 1865, he was articled to his father, George Adam Young. He studied at South Kensington School of Art and the Architectural Association.
He commenced independent practice in London in 1871 and entered into partnership with his father the following year. By 1886 he had entered into partnership with the church architect, Henry Hall, and their practice acquired a reputation for designing hospitals and school sanatoria. The partnership of Young and Hall was considered to be the pre-eminent British architects in the designing of hospitals. By 1922 sixteen hospitals had been built to their designs and over thirty-five others had been remodelled and rebuilt under their direction.Notable Londoners, an Illustrated Who's Who of Professional and Business Men (1922), London: London Publishing Agency, page 13; accessed 20 July 2024.
Young practiced for over fifty years, advising on approximately forty hospitals, either as new buildings or alterations, including the Middlesex Hospital, the Royal Eye Hospital, the Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis, the Chelsea Hospital for Women and Guy's Hospital Medical School. Young held long-term positions as architect to the London Fever Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital. He was also appointed as Honorary Architect to the Royal Eye Hospital.
Keith Downes Young died on 1 December 1929 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery.
Selected works Hospitals: Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, Derby Royal Eye Hospital, Southwark Victoria Hospital for Children, Tite Street, Chelsea Evelina Hospital for Children, Southwark Royal Dental Hospital, Leicester Square East Sussex Hospital, Hastings Great Northern Hospital, Holloway Hampstead General Hospital, Pond Street, Hampstead Bolingbroke Hospital, Battersea Chelsea Hospital for Women, Dovehouse Street London Fever Hospital, Islington (Isolation Block) Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital, Gray's Inn Road Maida Vale Hospital, Maida Vale Chest Hospital, Putney Miller Hospital, Greenwich Middlesex Hospital, Marylebone
School Sanatoria: Harrow School, Harrow Clifton College, Bristol Shrewsbury School, Shrewsbury Sherborne School, Dorset Blundell's School, Tiverton
Other works: Evening Standard Building, Shoe Lane, City of London Dunsley Hall, near Whitby, North Yorkshire Extension to Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields
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