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Latitude: 53.5578 / 53°33'27"N
Longitude: -2.629 / 2°37'44"W
OS Eastings: 358427
OS Northings: 406977
OS Grid: SD584069
Mapcode National: GBR BW29.MC
Mapcode Global: WH97R.LT9X
Plus Code: 9C5VH95C+49
Entry Name: Royal Albert Edward Infirmary with Attached Kitchen to Rear
Listing Date: 24 August 1994
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1384571
English Heritage Legacy ID: 485006
Location: Wigan, WN1
County: Wigan
Electoral Ward/Division: Wigan Central
Built-Up Area: Wigan
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: Wigan St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Liverpool
WIGAN
SD50NE WIGAN LANE
24-1/2/122 (West side)
24/08/94 Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, with
attached kitchen to rear
II
Main entrance block of hospital. Dated 1873 on porch; altered
and extended. Red brick in Flemish bond with some blue brick,
sandstone dressings, slate mansard roofs. T-plan formed by
main range facing east with rear wing (housing kitchen).
Gothic style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus tower, 3 wide bays, symmetrical:
recessed centre with central tower flanked by square wings
with gabled centres breaking forwards. Chamfered plinth,
chamfered sillbands and 4 blue brick bands to both floors, and
machicolated eaves cornice. The centre has a rectangular porch
with diagonal buttresses, embattled parapet and 2-centred
arched doorway with chunky semi-columns which have stiff-leaf
caps, an extrados inscribed "OPENED BY THEIR ROYAL HIGHNESSES
THE PRINCE & PRINCESS OF WALES JUNE 4, 1873", a hood-mould and
a steep gable rising through the parapet with a carved shield
in the apex. Above the porch is a 2-centred arch with
polychrome head containing a window of 2 arched lights; above
this a square tower with a lancet window, machicolation, a
clockface under a gablet, and a saddleback roof. The wings
each have a rectangular bay window at ground floor and a tall
2-centred arched window above, both with 3-light sashes.
Kitchen wing to rear.
INTERIOR: entrance hall lined with marble tablets listing
subscribers.
Listing NGR: SD5842706977
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