Description

CIRENCESTER

SP0202 THOMAS STREET
578-1/4/307 (North side)
14/06/48 Nos.4 AND 6
Weavers Hall

GV II*

Also known as: St Thomas's Hospital.
Almshouse. Late C15; founded by Sir William Nottingham before
1483. Coursed limestone rubble; stone slate roof with coped
verges; stone right-end stack enlarged in brick, brick
left-end stack. Through-passage plan, now one house to each
side.
2 storey 4-window range. First floor has 4 small fixed light
and casement windows with splayed reveals; ground floor has 3
similar windows and one 2-light chamfered stone mullion-and-
transom window with leaded upper lights to right; central
boarded studded door with iron strap hinges in chamfered
reveal with Tudor arched head; draped figure over door,
defaced. Shallow plinth; rudimentary quoins to left and right
angles.
INTERIOR of through passage only inspected; similar door to
far end, passage formed by plank and muntin screen to each
side, chamfered beam. Plaque records house to left altered
1986 by Eric Cole and Partners. Also known as St Thomas's
Hospital, after which Thomas Street re-named, founded by Sir
William Nottingham, Attorney-General to Edward IV, who in his
will of 1483 left land in trust for 4 poor men living here.
Baptist services said to have been held here later; John
Wesley preached here 1787. Said to be oldest domestic building
in Cirencester, continuously occupied since foundation.
(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The
Cotswolds: London: 1970-: P.178; Welsford J: Cirencester: A
History and Guide: Gloucester: 1987-: P.57; Plate attached to
building).

Listing NGR: SP0212102295

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536664

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)