coastline looking towards sully island
the st john baptist church, known sully church, grade ii listed building. hamlet of swanbridge includes caravan park , holiday camp , captain s wife public house, opened in 1977 after conversion of several quayside cottages. there foot access @ low tide pub car park sully island tides high , fast - , therefore dangerous. there access time of 3 hours each side of low tides , extreme care advised. atlantic trading estate between sully , barry, , bendricks major site of interest paleontologists due extensive fossils. sully island situated off coast.
sully school moved present site in 1936. primary school twenty-six place nursery unit. there on 400 pupils , seventeen teachers. there no secondary schools in village. children attend stanwell school in nearby penarth. sully school main feeder school stanwell school , other schools selected parental choice. free school bus services provided.
sully hospital
sully hospital described in glamorgan section of nikolaus pevsner’s ‘the buildings of wales’ “an outstanding example of inter-war architecture, has survived unaltered” , considered finest representation of modernist sanatoriums in britain , 1 of last great modernist landmarks remaining in whole of wales.
the classical , elegant art deco structure completed between 1932 , 1936 firm of william pite, son , fairweathers had won 1931 open competition design new building. established king edward vii welsh national memorial association intensive investigation of observation cases , treatment modern methods of chronic , advanced pulmonary disease , opened in 1936 prince george, duke of kent specialist tuberculosis facility.
hayes point, luxury apartments in converted former sully hospital
however, during second world war began admit non-tb patients, , afterwards served general chest , heart treatment facility. during war, had general surgery wards , own maternity unit. in 1943 there battalion of american seabees, construction corps, living on merchant vessel tied in penarth docks, while built large number of quonset huts rapid temporary expansions of sully hospital needed wartime pressure of additional patients, both military , civilian. many of quonset huts remained in use overflow accommodation until mid-1960s. in 1993 hospital switched speciality in residential psychiatric care until final closure nhs trust facility in 2001.
the hospital building received grade ii* heritage listing in 1990. while standing vacant hospital building briefly considered potential location temporary housing of 750 eastern european asylum seekers, plans shelved after campaign , objections local residents. in last few years building has been converted individual luxury apartments investment property company galliard homes ltd. building has been renamed hayes point , art deco external appearance retained , preserved.
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