Former Royal Naval Hospital the Church of the Good Shepherd
FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113295
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Former Royal Naval Hospital the Church of the Good Shepherd
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1113295
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Nov-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Royal Naval Hospital the Church of the Good Shepherd
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, HIGH STREET
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ROYAL NAVAL HOSPITAL THE CHURCH OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 46747 54741
Details
PLYMOUTH
SX4654NE HIGH STREET, Stonehouse 740-1/56/820 (North side) 01/05/75 Former Royal Naval Hospital: The Church of the Good Shepherd (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET, Stonehouse Royal Naval Hospital: Chapel)
GV II
Chapel at former Naval Hospital. 1883, restored after war damage in 1945-6. MATERIALS: Plymouth limestone random rubble (like crazy paving) and limestone dressings; dry slate roofs with coped ends: nave roof above wooden clerestory with trefoils and cusped 2-light dormer windows with round tracery over mullion shafts (4 to each side); half-conical roof over chancel; lean-tos over aisles, all with ornate cornices, and stone spire to tower. STYLE: Gothic Revival, mostly with early English details. PLAN: nave: semicircular-plan chancel; N and S aisles with integral E porches; short transept to W end of N aisle; small apse to W end of S aisle, and small-plan tower with baptistry to SW corner. EXTERIOR: early Gothic style features including stiff-leaf capitals, nail-head ornament and shaft rings; cusped and traceried 2-light windows with nook shafts with carved stiff-leaf capitals: 6 chancel windows with linked hoodmoulds over pointed arches. Nave has punched trefoil band running between gabled 2-light dormers; 4 squat 2-centred arched windows to each aisle; quatrefoils above similar windows with hoodmoulds and moulded impost strings to ends of aisles. At W end of nave is large 2-centred arched window of 2 orders over W porch with 2-centred outer arch of 2 orders and trefoil-headed inner doorway. S porch is gabled; N porch has squat moulded arch and lean-to hood above which is a series of 5 quatrefoils over 3 trefoils. Tower is of 3 diminishing stages with octagonal upper stage surmounted by steep spire with finial; carved cornices above each stage. 2nd stage has chamfered corners and paired lights; lower stage has corner shafts and single lights with trefoil heads. INTERIOR: light white-painted interior with natural wood arch-braced (hammer-beam) and aisled roof carried on slender wooden posts; moulded pointed chancel arch over clustered polished marble shafts; fan roof over chancel with turned shafts with richly-carved capitals to windows.
FITTINGS: include marble font with quatrefoils and turned shafts; 2nd font which seems to be made of a wooden ship's bollard and part of a gun; pitch-pine pews with V-jointed boards and shaped ends; ships' badges. War memorial. A very unusual church design, described by Pevsner as "engineers' Gothic", and set in good grounds as part of an outstanding military hospital complex. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989-: 655; Morrison K: Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse: Cambridge: 1992-: 100373).
Listing NGR: SX4674754741
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 473511
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Morrison, K, Royal Naval Hospital Stonehouse, (1992), 100373
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 655
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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