Unlike the various asylums I’d been exploring, the CRX wasn’t designed for long-term patient care. Asylum wards were designed to capture the most natural light possible, and several configurations were offered to cope with different patient types.

At the CRX, devoted to the quick treatment of injuries, the wards were built to maximize the space – hence they were all in parallel in a very regimented style, all orientated east-west, and served by this north-south corridor which ran the entire length of the hospital.

^[1]For the CRX, born of Berkshire, is now in Buckinghamshire. And it may not be the longest corridor in Buckinghamshire. But by Berkshire's standards, it was pretty long indeed.