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Latitude: 52.1941 / 52°11'38"N
Longitude: -2.2223 / 2°13'20"W
OS Eastings: 384902
OS Northings: 255117
OS Grid: SO849551
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.GYR
Mapcode Global: VH92T.F3JV
Plus Code: 9C4V5QVH+J3
Entry Name: Berkeley's Hospital: Chapel
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Last Amended: 12 June 2001
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390199
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489169
ID on this website: 101390199
Location: Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1
County: Worcestershire
District: Worcester
Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Worcester
Traditional County: Worcestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire
Church of England Parish: Worcester St Nicholas and All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Worcester
Tagged with: Chapel
WORCESTER
SO8455SE THE FOREGATE
620-1/12/612 (West side)
22/05/54 Berkeley's Hospital:
Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
FOREGATE
(West side)
Berkeley's Hospital
(North and South ranges
with gateway and Chapel
at West end)
GV I
Chapel. Dated 1703 above entrance, with later restorations.
Endowed by Robert Berkeley. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish
bond with ashlar plinth (renewed), quoins and architraves;
plain tile roof, splayed and hipped. Single tall storey, 4
windows. Moulded plinth, quoins to full height. Central
entrance: double 10-raised-and-fielded-panel door with
L-hinges; bolection moulded architrave and dated keystone
between pilasters with acanthus corbel brackets to cornice,
pulvinated frieze and broken segmental pediment with coat of
arms. Above a statue of Robert Berkeley in round-arched niche.
Round-arched windows with tooled architraves and keystones,
moulded sills. Band over windows. Modillion cornice with
curvilinear modillion 'pediment' and crowning cupola. Rear: 3
straight-headed windows in tooled architraves, one similar
window to west end; to east end a round-arched window; windows
have coloured glass.
INTERIOR: plain, with quarry tile floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the almshouses (qv) and Chapel were endowed
by Robert Berkeley of Spetchley in 1692 for 12 poor men.
The Chapel occupies the west side of a courtyard with
Berkeley's Hospital: almshouses, gate lodges, piers and gates
(qv) to other sides, forming an important example of
Renaissance planning and one of the finest almshouse groups in
England.
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