Description

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
620-1/6/556 (North side)
22/05/54 No.23
The Vicarage
(Formerly Listed as:
ST GEORGE'S SQUARE
(North side)
No.23
St George's Vicarage)

GV II

Vicarage. Abuts No.24 (qv) to west. c1830 with later additions
and alterations including probably late C19 range to rear.
Brick with painted stucco dressings; hipped slate roof, ridge
and hip tiles. Four brick stacks (pair to each end), each with
2 string courses, oversailing detail and pots.
PLAN: double-depth with central hallway and service wing to
rear left.
EXTERIOR: symmetrical facade of 3 storeys. 3 first floor
windows, central French window with margin-glazing and
fanlight. Otherwise ground- and first-floors have 8/8 sashes
with flat arches of red rubbed brick; second-floor has central
3/6 sash and 4/8 sashes. All in plain reveals and with sills.
Central entrance with distyle Tuscan porch and engaged
pilasters and entablature; 5-panel door, top 4 glazed, bottom
panel flush-beaded with incised elliptical motif, fanlight of
circle-and-teardrop design.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Venetian shutters and shutter boxes to
outer first-floor windows, hinged shutters to second-floor.
Central first-floor window has individual balcony with
cast-iron scrolled-heart pattern balusters (similar design to
those used on nos 28 and 29 (qv) St. George's Square) and
domed, Moorish-style hood.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Marked as vicarage on 1886 O.S. map and
possibly one of the three buildings shown on the N side of the
Square on Clement's map of 1828; thus assumed to be the
vicarage for the first Church of St George, built 1828,
demolished pre-1895 to make way for new Church (qv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334-5).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669511

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
• 
  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)