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Trinity Hospital

A Grade II* Listed Building in Greenwich, London

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4853 / 51°29'6"N

Longitude: -0.0019 / 0°0'6"W

OS Eastings: 538829

OS Northings: 178150

OS Grid: TQ388781

Mapcode National: GBR L1.469

Mapcode Global: VHGR1.XXBS

Plus Code: 9C3XFXPX+46

Entry Name: Trinity Hospital

Listing Date: 19 October 1951

Last Amended: 8 June 1973

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1078961

English Heritage Legacy ID: 200404

Also known as: Trinity Hospital, Greenwich

ID on this website: 101078961

Location: Greenwich, London, SE10

County: London

District: Greenwich

Electoral Ward/Division: Peninsula

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Greenwich

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London

Church of England Parish: Greenwich St Alfege

Church of England Diocese: Southwark

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Description


1.
4412 HIGH BRIDGE SE10

Trinity Hospital
(formerly listed in
Old Woolwich Road)
TQ 38-8 15/G95 19.10.51.

II* GV


2.
Built in 1613-17, altered and partly rebuilt. Multicoloured stock brick with
stuccoed front of early C19 appearance. Small scale, Gothic style. Front of
2 storeys, 7 windows. High pitched roof of large slates. Tall, stuccoed chimney
stacks. Battlemented parapet. Ends cross-gabled, with crow steps, and a pinnacle
at either side of gables. 3-light casement windows, with Gothic bars under
square hoodmoulds (except in side bays where 1st floor windows have high, pointed
hoodmoulds with stucco interlacing tracery between). Central tower has arched
entrance on ground floor, window on 1st floor with blank arcading above. At roof
level achievement of arms with Latin inscriptions above and below. Clock above
this. Battlemented parapet; and small spire or spike above, with louvred bell openings,
flagstaff and vane. Inside courtyard of 5 bays each side, arcaded on ground
floor with 4-centred arches. Similar arches to doors. 1st floor casement windows
with glazing bars. At either side, behind front range roof, a stepped gable
end, that on west side holding a Venetian window. Rear elevation of 2 storeys,
7 windows, multicoloured stock brick. 3-light casement windows with stone frames
and mullions. 1st floor band.
In South range 3-bay Chapel has 1812 Gothic decoration with rib-patterning to
segmental vaulted roof. Hoodmoulds to pointed windows with interlacing bars.
4-centred arch to East (ritual) window with Flemish, early C16 stained glass,
with decorative panels above and below, and The Crucifixion, The Agony in the
Garden and the Ascension between.
Monument to the founder, the Earl of Northampton, by Nicholas Stone.

Trinity Hospital, its Lodges and Front Wall form a group.


Listing NGR: TQ3882978150

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