Description

CHESTER CITY (IM)

SJ4066SW CITY WALLS ROAD
595-1/3/140 (East side (off))
10/01/72 Chester Royal Infirmary
(Formerly Listed as:
WALLS ROAD
Chester Royal Infirmary)

GV II

Hospital. 1761, altered and extended late C18, C19 and C20.
The C18 court and buildings directly abutting, only, are
included in this item. The C18 buildings enclose the
south-west court of the present hospital with extensions C19
and early C20 north and east in compatible style.
Stone-dressed brown brick; grey-green slate roofs.
EXTERIOR: the west front to City Walls Road of the C18 portion
has basement and 2 storeys; the north, east and south ranges
around the court are raised to 3 storeys plus attics.
The front has a projecting porch with 2 columns derived from
the Roman Doric and 2 scroll brackets supporting a canted
upper-storey bay; replaced double doors have a lozenge-paned
overlight in shouldered and pedimented doorcase with a
recessed 15-pane horned sash to each side; a moulded
second-storey floor band with segmental pediment to central
face; a replaced 2-pane sash to each face of the upper storey,
the central one round-arched with head painted ERECTED 1761;
frieze and simple cap of stone; pedimented gable behind
inscribed INFIRMARY. Each wing has a basement of lined render
behind a ha-ha, and 2 storeys of 2 recessed 15-pane sashes
with moulded stone sills and cambered brick heads; plain stone
copings.
The west ends of the north and south ranges have lined
rendered basements and 2 recessed 15-pane sashes to each of
the first and second storeys, a central pair of double glazed
doors with radial bar fanlight to a now removed second storey
balcony, a pair of French windows to removed third storey
balcony, with a 6-pane window to each side and a moulded
cornice beneath the added attic storey of three 6-pane windows
to the south wing and 3 stained glass windows, probably late
C19, to the north wing depicting a child patient, morning,
noon and night; round pediments. The sides of the north and
south ranges have recessed 15-pane windows detailed as in the
west wing. The east wing has a canted central projection, the
second storey windows altered as round-arched stained-glass
leaded lights; other sashes and hoppers have stone sills and
plain wedge lintels. The courtyard has similar 15-pane

windows, partly concealed by an added upper gallery on posts.
INTERIOR: the principal visible internal feature is a large
full-height open-well stair of stone with square balusters and
swept rail carved at its lower end.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the hospital was funded by subscriptions,
free to patients who at first had to be recommended by
subscribers.

Listing NGR: SJ4013166413

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Chester Royal Infirmary at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5093703

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)