Angel Centre - The Butts, Worcester (former Sunday School)

I walked down Shaw Street heading to the River Severn.

 

Building on the corner of The Butts and Angel Place.

 

It is (or was) the Angel Centre. Grade II listed.

 

WORCESTER

 

SO8455SE ANGEL PLACE

620-1/12/17 (West side)

11/02/87 Angel Centre

(Formerly Listed as:

ANGEL PLACE

(West side)

Angel Place Sunday

School)

 

GV II

 

Sunday school, now community centre. 1887-1888 by Aston Webb.

Yellow brick with stone bands, quoins, dressings and copings

with slate and shingle roofs. Rectangular plan with gabled

roof of hall rising higher in centre. Main entrance canted at

corner and set back. 2 storeys with stone sill bands and

cornice-bands, carried through entrance tower. Irregular 5-bay

fenestration to north and 4-bay to east. Deep canted bay with

hipped roof and dentilled cornice to left of east front. All

windows of mullion and transom cross-type with

segmentally-arched heads to upper lights. Gabled hall block

rises behind north front and carries back to south. Gabled

dormer in roof on east side of hall. Entrance in 3-storey

porch set back in north-east corner at 45 degree angle. 3

steps to 6-panel double doors, moulded lintel and acanthus

keystone, double-hollow-chamfered round arch over and figure

of seated child reading in the gable. Octagonal side

buttresses with striped brick and stone quoining at

first-floor levels carry up to crown-like finials flanking

slim window with crest over in tall triangular gable. Tiled

finial with weathervane behind. First floor has single transom

and mullion cross-window over pointed triangular hood with

segmental intrados and panelled tracery to double doors.

INTERIOR: noted as having unusual plan with offices in rows

around central 2-storey hall with gallery on columns in

polygonal plan. Gallery has wooden balustrade.

HISTORICAL NOTE: built as Sunday school for Congregational

Church (now Tramps Nightclub), Angel Place (qv).

Done