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Latitude: 52.2001 / 52°12'0"N
Longitude: -2.2246 / 2°13'28"W
OS Eastings: 384748
OS Northings: 255783
OS Grid: SO847557
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.2D8
Mapcode Global: VH92M.DYBT
Plus Code: 9C4V6Q2G+25
Entry Name: Priory House at Worcester Royal Grammar School
Listing Date: 22 May 1954
Last Amended: 12 June 2001
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390242
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489213
ID on this website: 101390242
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
Tagged with: School building
WORCESTER
SO8455NE UPPER TYTHING
620-1/8/655 (East side)
22/05/54 Priory House at Worcester
Royal Grammar School
(Formerly Listed as:
THE TYTHING
(West side)
Priory House)
GV II
House, now part of Worcester Royal Grammar School. c1730 with
later additions and alterations; incorporates the remains of
the C13 chapel of the Cistercian Nunnery of Whiteladies which
formerly occupied the site. Ref. also Whiteladies House (qv).
Red brick with stone detailing; plain clay tile roof. Timber
doorcase, canopy and brackets.
2 storeys with cellar and attics. 5 first-floor windows. Brick
detailing includes plinth and plain eaves band surmounted by
dentils. Stone detailing ncludes fluted keystones with moulded
caps to window heads; sills. Windows are all 6/6 sashes,
near-flush frames under gauged brick flat arches. 6-panel
entrance door with 3-light overlight; simple doorcase and flat
canopy on shaped brackets. 3 cambered-roof dormers with curved
head 3/3 sashes.
INTERIOR: retains staircase with wreathed handrail with
unusual 'S'-curved ramps, slender turned balusters with knops.
Some 2-panel doors on upper floors.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 325).
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