St Oswald's Hospital (Almshouses and Chaplain's House)
ST OSWALD'S HOSPITAL (ALMSHOUSES AND CHAPLAIN'S HOUSE), THE TYTHING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390236
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- St Oswald's Hospital (Almshouses and Chaplain's House)
- Statutory Address:
- ST OSWALD'S HOSPITAL (ALMSHOUSES AND CHAPLAIN'S HOUSE), THE TYTHING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390236
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1971
- List Entry Name:
- St Oswald's Hospital (Almshouses and Chaplain's House)
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST OSWALD'S HOSPITAL (ALMSHOUSES AND CHAPLAIN'S HOUSE), 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:
- ST OSWALD'S HOSPITAL (ALMSHOUSES AND CHAPLAIN'S HOUSE), 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:
- SO8478255652
Details
WORCESTER
SO8455NE THE TYTHING
620-1/8/649 (East side)
05/04/71 St Oswald's Hospital
(Almshouses and
Chaplain's House)
GV II
Almshouses. 1873 by Henry Rowe (City Architect). Red brick
with stone dressings. Plain clay tile, 2-span roof with
parapets to eaves and gables. Multi-shafted brick stacks with
stone dressings and pots to main ridges. Stone bellcote to
rear of gatehouse roof.
PLAN: Double-depth ranges arranged along 3 sides (W, N and S)
of a lawned courtyard, the Chapel of St Oswald's (qv)
partially enclosing the east side. The courtyard is accessed
via a central gatehouse in the west range with the Chaplain's
house forming part of the range to the north.
Victorian Gothic style with paired gables.
West (entrance) elevation: 2-storeys, 16 first-floor windows.
Stone detailing includes parapets, copings, window and door
surrounds, moulded string courses and plinth, statue of St.
Oswald. First-floor windows are mainly double and
staggered-triple lancet style with fixed and side-hung 3-pane
metal casements. Ground-floor has mainly 2 and 3-light
square-head mullioned windows, metal frames to glazing. Some
small single-light windows to both floors. Gatehouse entrance
has pointed arch with pair of framed and lattice-braced
planked doors with ornate wrought-iron strap-hinges. Above the
entrance is an ornamented staggered-triple lancet window, each
arch surmounted by a gable with pinnacles and decorated with
crockets; the centre-light is blind and contains a statue of
St. Oswald.
Street elevation to south is similar but with more
single-light windows. The extension of this wing to the east
is c1990.
The courtyard elevations correspond closely to those facing
west but access to each dwelling is from the courtyard only
via planked doors with Caernarvon arch style heads; 3-pane
overlight with egmental-arched head. Clock under gabled
hood-moulding in apex of gatehouse gable; bellcote with bell
over.
Chaplain's House is in matching style but taller and more
ornate. Symmetrical composition. 3 first-floor windows of
staggered triple lancet style with gables over. Central
entrance; planked door as per other houses but with 1/1
sidelights. Entrance flanked by 4-light stone bays;
Caernarvon-arch heads to each light.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(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:
- 489207
- 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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