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Latitude: 52.199 / 52°11'56"N
Longitude: -2.2233 / 2°13'23"W
OS Eastings: 384835
OS Northings: 255660
OS Grid: SO848556
Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.2QK
Mapcode Global: VH92M.FZ0N
Plus Code: 9C4V5QXG+HM
Entry Name: Chapel to St Oswald's Hospital
Listing Date: 5 April 1971
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1390235
English Heritage Legacy ID: 489206
ID on this website: 101390235
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: Chapel
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620-1/8/648 (East side)
05/04/71 Chapel to St Oswald's
Hospital
GV II
Chapel. 1873-4 by local architect Henry Rowe. Red brick with
cream-coloured stone dressings. Plain clay tile roof. Middle
Pointed style.
5-bay nave; west bay is slightly narrower and lower and
separated from nave by an arch to form a narthex, small porch
off to south; semi-circular apse, vestry off to north. Stone
detailing includes chamfered plinth, door and window surrounds
together with sills, hood moulds and string courses, quoins,
copings to angle buttresses, inter-window buttresses, and
gable parapets. Window openings are pointed arches,
single-light to apse; mullioned 3-light to west-end; mullioned
2-light to north and south elevations; all with geometrical
tracery and quatrefoils; diamond-pane leaded glazing, that to
west window and apse is stained, further tained glass windows
to north and south. Caernarvon arch window openings to vestry.
Small tripartite window at each apex of nave gable. Pointed
arch head plank door to south porch and to vestry.
INTERIOR: simple white painted with exposed roof trusses.
Plain pine pews. Moulded pointed altar arch rising from
corbelled, triple engaged columns with stiff-leaf capitals.
Similar but smaller arch detail to west bay.
Forms a focal point to the Almshouse courtyard.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire:
Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334).
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