Westgate Galleria

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GLOUCESTER

SO8218NE WESTGATE STREET 844-1/7/430 (North side) 23/01/52 Westgate Galleria (Formerly Listed as: WESTGATE STREET (North side) St Bartholomew's Hospital)

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Almshouse, now shopping and craft centre. 1787-90. By William Price of Gloucester for the City of Gloucester on site of St Bartholomew's Hospital founded in early C12; minor late C19 additions in similar style; converted to commercial use and chimney-stacks and belfrey demolished c1980. Brick, faced in ashlar on the front, otherwise with stone dressings, gabled slate roofs. Gothick style. PLAN: a symmetrical cross plan with central, axial range and long flanking wings; on the front of the axial range an entrance porch now blocked, in the back of the range the former chapel with semicircular apsidal end; the former accommodation for inmates in the wings, now shops and offices, with a small toilet block added at each end in late C19. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and full-height former chapel. Symmetrical facade; on the front and sides of the central, gabled axial range and the flanking side of each wing is shallow, full-height, blind arcading, with triple-clustered shafts and moulded pointed arches; on the wings rising from the central shafts through the crowning string course and crenellated parapet a thin canted buttresses probably intended to support finials; at each corner of the axial range and wings are thin diagonal buttresses. On the front of the axial block three bays of arcading rising in steps into the gable, in the wider central bay a projecting porch with crenellated parapet, arched doorway, and on each side wall a blind pointed arch; in the central bay on the first floor a pointed-arched window with flanking blind arches and in the side bays on each floor similar, smaller windows; on each side of the axial range a wide arcade bay with four-centred arch; on each floor in the side bay and in the ends of both side walls adjacent to the wings is a four-centred arched window. On each wing are six arcade bays with four-centred arches, in each bay and in the ends of both walls adjacent to the axial range on each floor a four-centred arched window, all window arches with splayed jambs, hoodmoulds and casements.

At the rear a brick dentil cornice, in the apsidal end of the former chapel in the axial range are two large Tudor-arched windows, each wing of six bays with a doorway in the bay adjacent to the axial range and sashes on both floors. INTERIOR: former entrance corridor, now blocked, led to a central lobby with imperial staircase to the first floor; double flights to each side with stone steps and cast-iron balustrades of one baluster per tread of S profile, the staircase is supported by a pair of cast-iron columns and shallow arches with pierced quatrefoils in the spandrels; from the central lobby on both floors axial corridors through both wings, flanked by shops and offices converted from the former almshouse rooms, and leading to the small toilet blocks at each end; on the ground floor the corridors have exposed brick walls and quadripartite vaults; in the former entrance corridor and central lobby mosaic floors; the first floor corridors have stone paving. (BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 240; VCH: The City of Gloucester: Oxford: 1988-: 351).



Listing NGR: SO8260118954

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Sources

Books and journals
The Victoria History of the City of Gloucester, (1988), 351
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970), 240

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