SIR WILLIAM TURNER'S HOSPITAL - List Entry

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    "Almshouses, charity schools and chapel, 1674/76, largely rebuilt and extended 1720-1750, including chapel by James Gibbs. Schools now used as flats. Brick with sandstone dressings; ashlar chapel. Lakeland slate roofs; lead roofs on chapel. Stone-flagged pavements front almshouses on 3 sides of courtyard opening to north. South side : 3-bay apsidal gable-fronted chapel flanked by 2-storey, 3-bay houses; east and west sides: 2 storey, 14-bay almshouses with slightly-projecting north end bays. Baroque chapel has projecting central 4-stage tower over porch with round-headed openings, that at front in Tuscan surround...."
  • Owner

    Historic England
  • Source

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  • Further information

    Link: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1310786
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 8 years, 3 months ago
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