Chapel to St Oswald's Hospital
CHAPEL TO ST OSWALD'S HOSPITAL, THE TYTHING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390235
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel to St Oswald's Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- CHAPEL TO ST OSWALD'S HOSPITAL, THE TYTHING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390235
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Chapel to St Oswald's Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAPEL TO ST OSWALD'S HOSPITAL, THE TYTHING
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:
- CHAPEL TO ST OSWALD'S HOSPITAL, THE TYTHING
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 84835 55659
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE THE TYTHING
620-1/8/648 (East side)
05/04/71 Chapel to St Oswald's
Hospital
GV II
Chapel. 1873-4 by local architect Henry Rowe. Red brick with
cream-coloured stone dressings. Plain clay tile roof. Middle
Pointed style.
5-bay nave; west bay is slightly narrower and lower and
separated from nave by an arch to form a narthex, small porch
off to south; semi-circular apse, vestry off to north. Stone
detailing includes chamfered plinth, door and window surrounds
together with sills, hood moulds and string courses, quoins,
copings to angle buttresses, inter-window buttresses, and
gable parapets. Window openings are pointed arches,
single-light to apse; mullioned 3-light to west-end; mullioned
2-light to north and south elevations; all with geometrical
tracery and quatrefoils; diamond-pane leaded glazing, that to
west window and apse is stained, further tained glass windows
to north and south. Caernarvon arch window openings to vestry.
Small tripartite window at each apex of nave gable. Pointed
arch head plank door to south porch and to vestry.
INTERIOR: simple white painted with exposed roof trusses.
Plain pine pews. Moulded pointed altar arch rising from
corbelled, triple engaged columns with stiff-leaf capitals.
Similar but smaller arch detail to west bay.
Forms a focal point to the Almshouse courtyard.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 489206
- 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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