Severalls opened in 1913 as the Second Essex County Asylum. It was built following an Echelon plan and was designed to cater for two thousand patients. Women were cared for in the eastern half of the asylum, while men were in the western side. In 1997 the asylum closed it doors.
Compared with St. Mary's it's a bigger but less complete site with the main hall gone and the mortuary missing its slab etc. It's wards vary from modernised and trashed, to dated and untouched, similar to St. Mary's with no false ceilings or plywood over the doors, and peeling paint. The corridors are about the best left in any of the derelict asylums, varying in size and sprawling over the site, and meeting at double aspect junctions.
Visited with Skin and Dazzababes.