FORD'S HOSPITAL

FORD'S HOSPITAL, GREYFRIARS LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1342891
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: FORD'S HOSPITAL
Statutory Address:: FORD'S HOSPITAL, GREYFRIARS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1342891
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: FORD'S HOSPITAL
Statutory Address 1:: FORD'S HOSPITAL, GREYFRIARS LANE

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.

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FORD'S HOSPITAL, GREYFRIARS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Coventry (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SP 33399 78822

Details

5105

SP 3378 NW 10/27

GREYFRIARS LANE

Ford's Hospital

5.2.55.

I

Early C16. Also known as Greyfriar's Hospital. Endowed 1509 by will of William Ford. Additional endowment 1517 by William Pisford. Date 1529 on wall refers to appointment of feofees and possibly to additional building between courtyard and garden.

Timber frame with 1st floor oversailing. Badly damaged in air raid of November 1940 but rebuilt with original timbers 1951-3; altered by additional windows and stone walling to street. Much carving to timber framework, including miniature buttresses to close studding with bases and pinnacles. Four centred arched doorways with carved spandrels. Oak seats in courtyard corners. Rainwater heads 1784.

This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20 November 2019.

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Legacy System number:: 218487
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1969), 136 137

Legal

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