Description

WORCESTER

SO8455SE SANSOME WALK
620-1/12/506 (West side)
05/04/71 Victoria Institute with
attached wall, piers and
gates
(Formerly Listed as:
SANSOME WALK
(West side)
Technical College)

II

Formerly known as: School of Art and Science SANSOME WALK.
Formerly known as: Secondary School for Girls SANSOME WALK.
School, now vacant and attached wall, piers and gates. c1896 with
later additions and alterations including the former Girls School
to the rear of c1909. Girls School believed to be by City
Architect, Mr Parker, School of Art and Science probably by J W
Simpson and Milner Allen.
Red brick in Flemish bond with terracotta dressings; plain tile
roof; cast-iron gates. STYLE: free Renaissance.
EXTERIOR: irregular facade of 3 storeys with attics and 4
storeys, 4 bays. Facade surmounted by irregular gables with attic
dormer to second bay and with embattled octagonal turret at right
with weather vane. 1-, 2-, 3- and 4-light mullion windows, in
tooled and quoined terracotta surrounds and with cornices, some
with shaped cornices. Flight of steps to off-centre entrance
inscribed 'Art and Science' in metal lettering, double
part-glazed doors with fanlight, within glazed 2-storey porch.
Left return: 3 storeys, 5 irregular bays, which break forwards an
are set back. Off-centre left entrance, double, panelled doors
with fanlight with decorative glazing bars in pilastered surround
with round-arched hood on scrolled brackets, above this a
terracotta panel with 2 girls and in raised lettering, 'SECONDARY
SCHOOL FOR GIRLS'. Mainly 2-light mullion and mullion-and-transom
windows in tooled surrounds, some with cornices. Parapet with
cartouche over centre and gable to right bay.
INTERIOR: retains staircase with cast-iron balusters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: wall and gates to left return, wall has
terracotta band and copings, similar piers, square on plan and
with shaped caps.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The 1905 O.S. map shows the City Museum,
Foregate Street (qv) and the School of Art and Science, Sansome
Walk with just a narrow link between the two; the 1928 map shows
the link replaced by the Girls School.
Pevsner: 'In the same style and no doubt by the same architect as
the Victoria Institute. (now Library, Museum and Art Gallery,
Foregate Street (qv)) The facade is in its own way as
successful.'
Forms an integral group with the Library, Museum and Art Gallery,
Foregate Street (qv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth:
1968-1985: 324).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26669562

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