Description

KINGSTON UPON HULL

TA1029SW CHARTERHOUSE LANE
680-1/19/84 (North side)
13/10/52 Hull Charterhouse and attached
boundary wall and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CHARTERHOUSE LANE
The Hull Charterhouse)

GV I

Almshouse and attached boundary wall and railings. 1778-80,
with C19 rear addition. By Joseph Hargrave. Brick with painted
ashlar dressings and hipped slate roofs topped with a large
wooden cupola with 6 Ionic columns and lead dome. 10 brick
ridge stacks, some of them renewed.
Plinth, dentillated eaves cornice and pediment. 2 storeys;
main range of 7 windows with projecting pedimented centre of 3
windows, flanked by wings each of 3 windows. Windows are
12-pane sashes with painted brick flat arches. Central
pediment has a coat of arms. Semicircular Roman Doric portico
with 2 columns and leaded half-dome, the frieze with Latin
inscription. The openings have wrought-iron railings and
gates. Recessed doorway flanked by Doric columns and
half-columns. Returns have each five 12-pane sashes on each
floor, those nearest the front blank. Hipped 2-storey rear
addition has 4 windows on each floor and 4 stacks.
INTERIOR has spinal corridors. Notable chapel with moulded
cornice and 3-compartment ceiling with central glazed dome.
Round arched window at either end. Elegant Classical wooden
doorcase in the centre of one long wall, with frieze with
floral swags and segmental pediment. Glazed double doors with
glazing bars. Opposite the door, a semicircular wooden pulpit
set into the wall, with carved ogee bracket and half-round
sounding board. Below it, clerk's desk and enclosing rail with
spindle turned balusters. Altar rail, at right end, has heavy
turned balusters.
Outside, cast-iron spearhead railings running between the
wings, with brick plinth, ashlar coping and central gate. The
Hull Charterhouse was founded by the eminent merchant Michael
de la Pole in 1384.
(Hall I & E: Georgian Hull: York: 1978-1979: 34,65,97,99).

Listing NGR: TA1004529355

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Charterhouse, Kingston upon Hull at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5086873

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