Hospital of the Holy Trinity (Whitgift Hospital)
HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY (WHITGIFT HOSPITAL), NORTH END
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1188846
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hospital of the Holy Trinity (Whitgift Hospital)
- Statutory Address:
- HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY (WHITGIFT HOSPITAL), NORTH END
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1188846
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Hospital of the Holy Trinity (Whitgift Hospital)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY (WHITGIFT HOSPITAL), NORTH END
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:
- HOSPITAL OF THE HOLY TRINITY (WHITGIFT HOSPITAL), NORTH END
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Croydon (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32325 65584
Details
In the entry for NORTH END 9/1 Hospital of the Holy Trinity (Whitgift Hospital) The previous listing date shall be amended to read 29.1.51
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1. 5009 NORTH END
Hospital of the Holy Trinity (Whitgift Hospital) TQ 3265 9/1 20.5.54
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2. Founded by Archbishop Whitgift (1580-1604) for the use and benefit of the poor, and built 1596-9. Two-storeys. Red brick with stone dressings and tiled roofs. Quad- rangular plan. Front has 2-2-2-2-2 stone mullioned windows all in one plane, those on ground floor having drip-moulds and the end portions being crowned by gables with stone capping. Three storey central stone-capped gatehouse having round-arched doorway with pilasters, and entablature with motto, "Qui dat pauperi non indigebit" under broken pediment enclosing a shield of the Arms of the City of Canterbury. Above the 2 windows on first floor is a panel bearing mitre in relief. Two single light stone windows to second floor. Blue brick diaper work and initials to gables. The George Street front is ungabled and has similar ranges of stone mullioned windows. Courtyard similar, but with doors of apartments. North End gatehouse has a 4-centred archway with one window over on each floor and clock in gable. Gatehouse on east side of courtyard is similar but with a Georgian sash window on the first floor (with drip-mould raised in the centre and enclosing a mitre). Plain gable. The almshouses were extensively restored in 1860 by Butterfield, and the upper parts of the North End front and the chimneystacks date from this time. Interiors contain panelling. Chapel in North East corner has 3-light Gothic window with traceried head given by a citizen of York in 1597 and panelling of 1640.
Listing NGR: TQ3233765605
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 201226
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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