An old Bible has been found in the former chapel at Brighton General Hospital and now it needs a new home.
The chapel is in E Block, now the new Seaside View children's development centre run by South Downs Health NHS Trust.
Engineering projects manager Graham Kent, pictured, discovered it in a drawer in a locked cabinet. He found the Bible was donated to the hospital, then a workhouse, by its chaplain the Reverend Heathcote Smith, his wife, children, mother, sisters and brother, on Christmas Day 1889. Smith was chaplain to the workhouse and infirmaries from 1889 to 1898.
There is no room for the Bible at Brighton Museum, which already has a Book of Common Prayer from the workhouse on display.
The Trust is keeping it with other historical records, including a financial ledger from 1916, a daily record book from the Thirties, a minute book from the Forties and a photograph album of the Queen's Nurses from the Fifties.
It is asking staff for suggestions about how and where these documents could best be put on display.
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