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St Oswald's Hospital (Almshouses and Chaplain's House)

A Grade II Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1989 / 52°11'56"N

Longitude: -2.2241 / 2°13'26"W

OS Eastings: 384782

OS Northings: 255652

OS Grid: SO847556

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.2K2

Mapcode Global: VH92M.DZLQ

Plus Code: 9C4V5QXG+H9

Entry Name: St Oswald's Hospital (Almshouses and Chaplain's House)

Listing Date: 5 April 1971

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1390236

English Heritage Legacy ID: 489207

ID on this website: 101390236

Location: Britannia Square, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1

County: Worcestershire

District: Worcester

Electoral Ward/Division: Arboretum

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Worcester

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Worcester St George with St Mary Magdalene

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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Description



WORCESTER

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620-1/8/649 (East side)
05/04/71 St Oswald's Hospital
(Almshouses and
Chaplain's House)

GV II

Almshouses. 1873 by Henry Rowe (City Architect). Red brick
with stone dressings. Plain clay tile, 2-span roof with
parapets to eaves and gables. Multi-shafted brick stacks with
stone dressings and pots to main ridges. Stone bellcote to
rear of gatehouse roof.
PLAN: Double-depth ranges arranged along 3 sides (W, N and S)
of a lawned courtyard, the Chapel of St Oswald's (qv)
partially enclosing the east side. The courtyard is accessed
via a central gatehouse in the west range with the Chaplain's
house forming part of the range to the north.
Victorian Gothic style with paired gables.
West (entrance) elevation: 2-storeys, 16 first-floor windows.
Stone detailing includes parapets, copings, window and door
surrounds, moulded string courses and plinth, statue of St.
Oswald. First-floor windows are mainly double and
staggered-triple lancet style with fixed and side-hung 3-pane
metal casements. Ground-floor has mainly 2 and 3-light
square-head mullioned windows, metal frames to glazing. Some
small single-light windows to both floors. Gatehouse entrance
has pointed arch with pair of framed and lattice-braced
planked doors with ornate wrought-iron strap-hinges. Above the
entrance is an ornamented staggered-triple lancet window, each
arch surmounted by a gable with pinnacles and decorated with
crockets; the centre-light is blind and contains a statue of
St. Oswald.
Street elevation to south is similar but with more
single-light windows. The extension of this wing to the east
is c1990.
The courtyard elevations correspond closely to those facing
west but access to each dwelling is from the courtyard only
via planked doors with Caernarvon arch style heads; 3-pane
overlight with egmental-arched head. Clock under gabled
hood-moulding in apex of gatehouse gable; bellcote with bell
over.
Chaplain's House is in matching style but taller and more
ornate. Symmetrical composition. 3 first-floor windows of
staggered triple lancet style with gables over. Central
entrance; planked door as per other houses but with 1/1
sidelights. Entrance flanked by 4-light stone bays;
Caernarvon-arch heads to each light.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).



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