The Vicarage
THE VICARAGE, 23, ST GEORGES SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390091
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE VICARAGE, 23, ST GEORGES SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390091
- Date first listed:
- 22-May-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 12-Jun-2001
- List Entry Name:
- The Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE VICARAGE, 23, ST GEORGES SQUARE
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:
- THE VICARAGE, 23, ST GEORGES SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Worcester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84688 56236
Details
WORCESTER
SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
620-1/6/556 (North side)
22/05/54 No.23
The Vicarage
(Formerly Listed as:
ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
(North side)
No.23
St George's Vicarage)
GV II
Vicarage. Abuts No.24 (qv) to west. c1830 with later additions
and alterations including probably late C19 range to rear.
Brick with painted stucco dressings; hipped slate roof, ridge
and hip tiles. Four brick stacks (pair to each end), each with
2 string courses, oversailing detail and pots.
PLAN: double-depth with central hallway and service wing to
rear left.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical facade of 3 storeys. 3 first floor
windows, central French window with margin-glazing and
fanlight. Otherwise ground- and first-floors have 8/8 sashes
with flat arches of red rubbed brick; second-floor has central
3/6 sash and 4/8 sashes. All in plain reveals and with sills.
Central entrance with distyle Tuscan porch and engaged
pilasters and entablature; 5-panel door, top 4 glazed, bottom
panel flush-beaded with incised elliptical motif, fanlight of
circle-and-teardrop design.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Venetian shutters and shutter boxes to
outer first-floor windows, hinged shutters to second-floor.
Central first-floor window has individual balcony with
cast-iron scrolled-heart pattern balusters (similar design to
those used on nos 28 and 29 (qv) St. George's Square) and
domed, Moorish-style hood.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Marked as vicarage on 1886 O.S. map and
possibly one of the three buildings shown on the N side of the
Square on Clement's map of 1828; thus assumed to be the
vicarage for the first Church of St George, built 1828,
demolished pre-1895 to make way for new Church (qv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334-5).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489061
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 334-5
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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