Description

WORCESTER

SO8455NE THE TYTHING
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).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669645

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback