Description

SOUTHWARK

TQ3279 FALMOUTH ROAD
636-1/5/338 (North West side)
Surrey Dispensary

II

Dispensary. c1840. Stucco, scored to imitate banded
rustication and painted.
Single storey. Segmental-arched door to left with a narrow
round-arched light to the side; 3 round-arched windows to the
right, before rebated front wall, which angles back to form
join with No.42 Trinity Street (qv), and then 3 more
round-arched openings. Parapet over entrance with inscription
giving the date of the foundation of the Dispensary, in C20
lettering.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: founded in 1777, The Surrey Dispensary let
premises in Union Street in 1787. According to an 1840
prospectus its aims were 'visitations' to 'lying-in women',
the sick and injured. It was one of several such charities
operating in Victorian Southwark and is thought to be the
oldest in London.

Listing NGR: TQ3260579384

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Surrey Dispensary at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26665303

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