Centre hospitalier Charles Perrens, Mental health hospital in Bordeaux, France.

The Centre hospitalier Charles Perrens occupies the former Château-Picon estate at 121 rue de la Béchade. Its oldest building, the psychiatric hospital, is a pale ashlar structure with a red tiled roof, a projecting central section topped by a curved gable with a round clock face above a carved panel, dormer windows and a glazed central entrance. Architect Jean-Jacques Valleton drew the plan, inspired by Saint Saviour's Union Infirmary at Champion Hill: three blocks, administrative and religious functions in the centre, pavilions in a double comb around an east-west central gallery.

The asylum moved from the Saint-Jean district to the Château-Picon estate, bought on 21 May 1886 from the widow Faugas: 22 hectares, 7 of them vines, with an 18th-century manor house. Architect Jean-Jacques Valleton, working with chief physician Taguet, drew on a tour of European asylums and based his plan on Saint Saviour's Union Infirmary at Champion Hill. Work began in 1887; eight of twelve pavilions were finished in 1889, construction ended on 28 July 1890 and the first patients arrived on 2 August 1890.

The name honours Charles Perrens, but the site's older layers survive in its vocabulary: the Saint-Jean asylum was founded in 1802 in the Enclos-Guiraud, a 1551 shelter for the insane said to have been built by the merchant Arnaud Guiraud after he recovered his reason. The 1890 buildings kept the pavilion system, with wards in double rows along a central east-west gallery.

The facility is located along Rue de la Béchade and accessible by several routes. Visitors should check ahead for visiting hours and access policies, as this is an active medical institution with restricted areas.

The 1886 design by architect Jean-Jacques Valleton borrowed its layout from Saint Saviour's Union Infirmary at Champion Hill, London: three blocks, with administration and religious functions in the centre, flanked by pavilions arranged in a double comb around an east-west central gallery. Only eight of the twelve planned pavilions were finished in 1889; the rest followed by 28 July 1890.