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Premises Occupied by Tramps Night Club

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1938 / 52°11'37"N

Longitude: -2.2234 / 2°13'24"W

OS Eastings: 384827

OS Northings: 255082

OS Grid: SO848550

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.GP3

Mapcode Global: VH92T.D4Y2

Plus Code: 9C4V5QVG+GJ

Entry Name: Premises Occupied by Tramps Night Club

Listing Date: 5 April 1971

Last Amended: 27 June 2001

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1359634

English Heritage Legacy ID: 488484

ID on this website: 101359634

Location: Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1

County: Worcestershire

District: Worcester

Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Worcester

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Worcester St Nicholas and All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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Description



WORCESTER

SO8455SE ANGEL PLACE
620-1/12/18 (West side)
05/04/71 Premises occupied by
Tramps night Club
(Formerly Listed as:
ANGEL PLACE
(East side)
Congregational Church)

GV II

Congregationalist church, now discotheque. 1858, with
conversion to nightclub c1980-1990. Architects probably
Poulton and Woodman. Cotswold stone ashlar over brick with
pinkish-red brick to rear; pyramidal slate roof with finial
and right stack with cornice and pots. Rectangular on plan
with apse, in Classical style. Single tall storey, described
to front facade as 2 storeys, 3 bays with outer wings. Facade
is stepped twice with central break forward. Central bowed
tetrastyle Corinthian portico with Doric pilasters to
responds, surmounted by pediment with acroteria. Columns stand
on tall plinth interrupted by flight of horseshoe steps to
central entrance, 12-panel double doors with panelled
overlight in Caernarvon-arched surround with cornice on
scrolled corbel brackets; continuous band over with panels
with lozenge motif below round-arched windows with circular
glazing bars, with imposts, architraves and keystones. Outer
bays: large piers with pyramidal caps to street frontage and
flights of steps to 6-panel doors with blind fanlights in
tooled architraves with keystone, pulvinated frieze and
cornice surmounted by balustrade with bulbous balusters. To
upper stage are round-arched windows with imposts, architraves
and keystones. Wings have Caernarvon-arched openings, that to
left with 4-panel door, that to right a replacement door,
panels over. Continuous cornice with acanthus modillions,
parapet with cornice.
INTERIOR: apse has 2 Corinthian columns in antis with pilaster
reveals; trefoil pulpit. Bowed balcony with ornate cast-iron
railings, on brackets; balcony retains benches. Ceiling has
central dome and ribs on corbels.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a distinguished example of Nonconformist
church architecture in robust classical style.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 332; Royal Commission on the
Historical Monuments of England: Nonconformist Chapels &
Meeting Houses(Hfds., Worcs. & Warwicks.: 1986-: 256-257).


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