Description

CHELTENHAM

SO9521NW SANDFORD ROAD 630-1/19/798 (North side) 05/05/72 General Hospital (central block) and attached railings

GV II*

Hospital. Dated 'AD 1848' above entrance. Architect, DJ Humphris. Cost around »2,000. Rendered stone with slate roof, ashlar portico and dressings, lateral stucco stacks; iron railings. Greek Revival style. E-shaped on plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys on basement, 11 first-floor windows arranged 2:2:3:2:2. Further single-storey on basement, 2-window range to right. Each end wing projects and has clasping full-height Doric pilasters; central tetrastyle portico has giant fluted Ionic columns to full height supporting pediment. Crowning entablature. 6/6 sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills, those to ground floor have tooled architraves and cornices. Concealed basement. Wide flight of steps to central entrance a 2-long-panel door and blind, panelled overlight in tooled architrave and with floating cornice. INTERIOR: retains original features including remains of original narrow open-well staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail with wreathed handrail. Entrance loggia has 2 Ionic columns. Ex-situ sculpture of The Good Samaritan by Holme Cardwell of Rome, 1852. Otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings have X-motif. (The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: London: 1970-: 133; Little B: Cheltenham: London: 1952-: 104-105).



Listing NGR: SO9515021510

External Links

• Cheltenham General Hospital at Wikipedia
• Cheltenham General Hospital official website
• Wikidata IDs Q17535797 Q5090204

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)