HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN WITHOUT THE BARRS AND CHAPEL

HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN WITHOUT THE BARRS AND CHAPEL, ST JOHN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1218231
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN WITHOUT THE BARRS AND CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN WITHOUT THE BARRS AND CHAPEL, ST JOHN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1218231
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 17-Jun-1994
List Entry Name:: HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN WITHOUT THE BARRS AND CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN WITHOUT THE BARRS AND CHAPEL, ST JOHN STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HOSPITAL OF ST JOHN WITHOUT THE BARRS AND CHAPEL, ST JOHN STREET

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County:: Staffordshire
District:: Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:: Lichfield
National Grid Reference:: SK1176109175

Details

SK1109SE 1094-1/8/167 05/02/52

LICHFIELD ST JOHN STREET (South West side) Hospital of St John without the Barrs and Chapel (Formerly Listed as: ST JOHN STREET (South West side) St John's Hospital, including Master's House and Chapel)

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Almshouses and chapel. Founded 1135, by Bishop Roger de Clinton; refounded 1495, by Bishop William Smith, when the almshouse range was built; alterations and additions,1929, and large addition of 1966-7 by Louis de Soissons; chapel extended 1829 and restored 1870. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile roof; ashlar chapel. PLAN: long range with later ranges forming U-plan, with chapel to north. 2 storeys; 9-window range. EXTERIOR: facade articulated by 8 large projecting stacks with offsets, now disused; offset buttress to right end. Entrance between 6th and 7th stacks has Tudor head in architrave with label mould battened door with strap hinges; oval plaque above, erected 1720, records the refounding of 1495, a cartouche above with the arms of Bishop Smith. Most windows are small, with brick sills, chamfered jambs and ashlar lintels, and leaded glazing; larger window to left of cartouche, windows to right of entrance are larger, that to ground floor with brick label, that to 1st floor has 2-light casement with small-paned glazing; right end has 2 small windows to ground floor and later gabled oriel above, with 1:3:1-light single-chamfered-mullioned window. Right return next to chapel has blocked elliptical-headed window and leaded light. Left end has 1929 additions forming canted angle and wing to rear, 1966 additions of single-storey return wing and 2-storey rear wing. Rear elevation has 4-centred entrance to cross-passage with brick arch and niche above with C19 statue. 2-light, 3-light and single-light windows to left; to right are six 2-storey canted bays of 1929 with 1:2:1-light windows. INTERIOR: some flat joists with runout stops; front corridor inserted 1929. Chapel has single-vessel nave and sanctuary, with north aisle of 1829. East end: coped gable with kneelers and offset angle buttresses to right; segmental-pointed window of 5 double-cusped lights, small window of pointed arch above and enriched C19 rainwater head to left; blind return has cornice. North aisle has coped west gable with kneelers and gabled bell cote, angle buttresses; 3-light west window has intersecting tracery; north return has similar windows flanking buttress/stack. South elevation has offset buttresses; double-chamfered pointed entrance to left end; 2-light plate tracery window, lancet, 3-light window and 2-light square-headed window both with Perpendicular tracery, and traceried lancet to right end. INTERIOR: roof has cusped arch braces to collars and queen struts; sanctuary has blocked 3-light square-headed window to north; 3-bay arcade to north aisle has octagonal piers and head stops to hoods; north aisle has king post roof; west end has vestibule with re-used panelling. Fittings: sanctuary has bolection-moulded fielded panelling, fluted frieze and cornice, large central panel with frieze with grapes and wheat; piscina to south with arch over restored bowl; gabled tabernacle to north; encaustic tiles. Aisle has organ to west end and small octagonal font. Monuments to members of the Simpson family to west end and C19 stained glass to south; 1984 east window by John Piper. The hospital was founded as a place of refuge for pilgrims after the city gates were closed, run by a community of Augustinian brothers and sisters; it was refounded as an almshouse and school in 1495, the school becoming the Grammar School in the C16. (Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Oxford: 1970-: P.279-89; Clayton H: St John's Hospital Lichfield: Lichfield: 1984-).

Listing NGR: SK1176109175

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Sources

Books and journals
Clayton, H, St John's Hospital Lichfield, (1984)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1970)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.