9A, ST THOMAS STREET
9A, ST THOMAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385873
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1949
- List Entry Name:
- 9A, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 9A, ST THOMAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1385873
- Date first listed:
- 06-Dec-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Sept-1998
- List Entry Name:
- 9A, ST THOMAS STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 9A, ST THOMAS STREET
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:
- 9A, ST THOMAS STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Southwark (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 32763 80190
Details
SOUTHWARK
TQ3280SE ST THOMAS STREET
636-1/17/735 (North side)
06/12/49 No.9A
(Formerly Listed as:
ST THOMAS'S STREET
(North side)
Chapter House of Southwark Cathedral)
GV II*
Parish Church of St Thomas, now offices and museum. c1702-03.
Used as chapter house for Southwark Cathedral, 1901-80, and
part as operating theatre for St Thomas' Hospital. Early
craftsmen included Thomas Cartwright, mason and Jonathan
Maine, carver. 1901-2 conversion by Arthur Bartlett.
MATERIALS: brown-red brick with stone dressings and slate
roof.
STYLE: plain Queen Anne style.
PLAN: rectangular plan with advanced, square-plan tower of 4
storeys to south west.
EXTERIOR: main elevation to street has one storey of 4 bays
and sunken basement, while north elevation has attic dormers
and lower level exposed. Main elevation has 4 round-headed
windows with stone architraves and cherub head keystones,
leaded lights incorporating stained-glass shields. Rusticated
stone quoins and moulded stone cornice with pediment set
against brick parapet with stone capping.
Tower with rusticated quoins has doors in stone architraves on
east and south faces, with segmental pediments and carved
tympanum. At 1st-floor level a circular opening with moulded
stone architrave on south, east and west faces (one on west
blocked up); round-headed, louvred windows in stone
architraves with keystones, one at 2nd-floor and one at
3rd-floor levels on each face. Stone bands at 2nd and 3rd
floors, and moulded stone cornice surmounted by brick parapet
with stone pedestals at angles and in middle of each face.
(Altered) North elevation has 4 tall, straight-headed sash
windows with glazing bars and red rubbed brick dressings,
divided by attached Ionic pilasters with swags supporting
modillion cornice. Lower level was formerly open cloister
space underneath the north gallery of the church.
INTERIOR: has panelled galleries with oak mouldings to north
and west sides, original oak reredos with fluted, Corinthian
pilasters under open segmental pediment with Royal Arms in
panelled cresting having crown above and supporters either
side; and side sections with obelisks over triangular
pediments. Finely moulded modillion cornice with interspersed
paterae over egg-and-dart moulding. Staircase with turned
balusters to gallery. Wainscoting renewed c1900-01. Restored
clock of 1757 by William Parr.
In attic, and now approached by tower staircase, is the old
operating theatre of St Thomas's Hospital (1822-62),
rediscovered in 1957 and furnished with reproduction gallery
and appurtenances of surgeons' trade. Recently opened, along
with the former herb garret, as a museum.
HISTORICAL NOTE: church built as part of rebuilding scheme for
old St Thomas's Hospital between 1680 and 1732, of which only
it, and No.9 adjacent (qv) remain. Continued as a parish
church until 1898. 1901-2 reordered inside for use as chapter
house. North elevation is treated in same way as that of
adjoining No.9 (qv) which was rebuilt for hospital at same
time. Together they form one of the more important survivals
of Queen Anne architecture in London).
This building forms a group with Nos 9-15 (qqv).
Listing NGR: TQ3276680185
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 471292
- 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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