Former Soup Kitchen to Rear of Number 49 Commercial Street
FORMER SOUP KITCHEN TO REAR OF NUMBER 49 COMMERCIAL STREET, UNION PASSAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242628
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Soup Kitchen to Rear of Number 49 Commercial Street
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER SOUP KITCHEN TO REAR OF NUMBER 49 COMMERCIAL STREET, UNION PASSAGE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242628
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Former Soup Kitchen to Rear of Number 49 Commercial Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER SOUP KITCHEN TO REAR OF NUMBER 49 COMMERCIAL STREET, UNION PASSAGE
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:
- FORMER SOUP KITCHEN TO REAR OF NUMBER 49 COMMERCIAL STREET, UNION PASSAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hereford
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 51187 40083
Details
SO 5140 SW HEREFORD UNION PASSAGE (South West side) 683-1/8/10000 Former Soup Kitchen to rear of No.49 Commercial Street GV II Fonner soup kitchen, now commercial premises. 1872. By Thomas Nicholson for the Hereford Society for Aiding the Industrious. Red brick with part slate, part glazed, roof Single storey. Gable end to Union Passage has 2 round-arched doorways and large window between. Roof has long raised louvre at apex with glazing to roof pitch. INTERIOR. One large space, the doors once serving as the entrance and exit for dispensing the soup. Boarded roof is supported on collar trusses with curved braces rising from moulded stone corbels and criss-cross bracing supporting the upper collar. HISTORY. Nicholson built and restored many churches as well as schools, mainly in Herefordshire and Radnorshire. He was Hereford Diocesan Architect and also acted as architect and adviser to the Hereford Society for Aiding the Industrious during the 1860's and 70's. It was during this time that he was asked to design a purpose-built soup kitchen at the rear of the Society offices in Nos.49/50 Commercial Street (qv). He was asked to draw up plans 'on the most approved principles with a room in which the poor may partake of the soup'. During the summer it was used as a temperance refreshment room. This is a rare survival of such an institution. (O'Donnell], 'John Venn and the Hereford Sociey for Aiding the Industrious'; Trans. Woolhope Naturalists Fld. Club XLVI (1990), pp.498-516)
Listing NGR: SO5118740083
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 442114
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
O'Donnell, J, Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists Field CLub in John Venn And The Hereford Society For Aiding The Industrious, Vol. 46, (1990), 498-516
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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