Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE ANGEL PLACE
620-1/12/17 (West side)
11/02/87 Angel Centre
(Formerly Listed as:
ANGEL PLACE
(West side)
Angel Place Sunday
School)

GV II

Sunday school, now community centre. 1887-1888 by Aston Webb.
Yellow brick with stone bands, quoins, dressings and copings
with slate and shingle roofs. Rectangular plan with gabled
roof of hall rising higher in centre. Main entrance canted at
corner and set back. 2 storeys with stone sill bands and
cornice-bands, carried through entrance tower. Irregular 5-bay
fenestration to north and 4-bay to east. Deep canted bay with
hipped roof and dentilled cornice to left of east front. All
windows of mullion and transom cross-type with
segmentally-arched heads to upper lights. Gabled hall block
rises behind north front and carries back to south. Gabled
dormer in roof on east side of hall. Entrance in 3-storey
porch set back in north-east corner at 45 degree angle. 3
steps to 6-panel double doors, moulded lintel and acanthus
keystone, double-hollow-chamfered round arch over and figure
of seated child reading in the gable. Octagonal side
buttresses with striped brick and stone quoining at
first-floor levels carry up to crown-like finials flanking
slim window with crest over in tall triangular gable. Tiled
finial with weathervane behind. First floor has single transom
and mullion cross-window over pointed triangular hood with
segmental intrados and panelled tracery to double doors.
INTERIOR: noted as having unusual plan with offices in rows
around central 2-storey hall with gallery on columns in
polygonal plan. Gallery has wooden balustrade.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as Sunday school for Congregational
Church (now Tramps Nightclub), Angel Place (qv).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26641855

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)