St Clare's Building at St John of God Hospital
ST CLARE'S BUILDING AT ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131464
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Clare's Building at St John of God Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- ST CLARE'S BUILDING AT ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL ROAD
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131464
- Date first listed:
- 03-Jul-1987
- List Entry Name:
- St Clare's Building at St John of God Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST CLARE'S BUILDING AT ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL ROAD
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.
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:
- ST CLARE'S BUILDING AT ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, HOSPITAL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Scorton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 25242 00247
Details
SCORTON HOSPITAL ROAD NZ 20 SE (south side) 7/76 St Clare's Building at St John of God Hospital
GV II
Convent. c1845 or earlier. For the Religious Order of Poor Clare's. Brick with ashlar openings, Welsh slate roof. Irregular L-shaped plan, the ranges set back from each other and with narrow bay in the angle so formed. Jacobethan style. 2 storeys and attics, 3 uneven bays to both main ranges. West elevation: windows of chamfered-mullion type with pointed-arched lights; in first bay, on ground floor, 3-light mullion-and-transom window; on first floor, 3-light Tudor-arched window with intersecting tracery. In second and third bays, single-light and 2-light windows respectively. Gables above first and second bays, with pointed-arched niche containing statue of St Clare, and gable cross. Shaped ashlar kneelers, raised verges with ashlar coping. Entry in left (north) return of this range: board door in Tudor-arched doorway. South elevation of northern range: on ground floor, mullion-and-transom windows of 3 , 5 and 3 lights; on first floor, mullion windows of 2 , 3 and 2 lights. 3 later dormers in roof. The Poor Clare's lived in a mansion on the site now occupied by the St John of God Hospital (built 1912), and very unusually ran a school for Roman Catholic girls, perhaps in this building, before moving to Darlington c1850. Taken over by the Order of St John of God in 1880. VCH i, p 303.
Listing NGR: NZ2524200247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322389
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 303
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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