The £22-million Mary Seacole building, designed by AFL architects, opened in May of 2006.  It is home to the Faculty of Health & Social Care.  The architects say that it, "... incorporates fully adaptable teaching accommodation to cope with changing methods and technology. These include various skills rooms and Physiology Lab, together with a 300 capacity Lecture Theatre."

Considering the focus of the work going on inside the building, it is appropriate that it is named after a women who is said to have a reputation in the field of health care to rival that of Florence Nightingale.  During the Crimean War Mary attempted to get permission to travel to the Crimea to work as a nurse but on several occasions her request was turned down.  Determined to make a contribution she traveled out at her own expense and set up a so-called "British Hotel" to, "provide 'a mess-table and comfortable quarters for sick and convalescent officers'. She also visited the battlefield, sometimes under fire, to nurse the wounded, and became known as 'Mother Seacole'".

A Blue Plaque was erected outside 14 Soho Square in London that reads "Mary Seacole 1805 - 1881 Jamaican Nurse Heroine of the Crimean War Lived Here"