Hospital of St John Without the Barrs and Chapel, Lichfield - chimney
This is the Hospital of St John Without the Barrs and Chapel in Lichfield.
Found it hard trying to take shots of it from the road - too much traffic. This is the best I could get.
Some shots include the Ford Tempest car showroom opposite.
On St John Street.
Grade I listed.
Hospital of St John Without the Barrs and Chapel, Lichfield
LICHFIELD
SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET
1094-1/8/167 (South West side)
05/02/52 Hospital of St John without the
Barrs and Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
ST JOHN STREET
(South West side)
St John's Hospital, including
Master's House and Chapel)
GV I
Almshouses and chapel. Founded 1135, by Bishop Roger de
Clinton; refounded 1495, by Bishop William Smith, when the
almshouse range was built; alterations and additions,1929, and
large addition of 1966-7 by Louis de Soissons; chapel extended
1829 and restored 1870. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile
roof; ashlar chapel.
PLAN: long range with later ranges forming U-plan, with chapel
to north. 2 storeys; 9-window range.
EXTERIOR: facade articulated by 8 large projecting stacks with
offsets, now disused; offset buttress to right end. Entrance
between 6th and 7th stacks has Tudor head in architrave with
label mould battened door with strap hinges; oval plaque
above, erected 1720, records the refounding of 1495, a
cartouche above with the arms of Bishop Smith. Most windows
are small, with brick sills, chamfered jambs and ashlar
lintels, and leaded glazing; larger window to left of
cartouche, windows to right of entrance are larger, that to
ground floor with brick label, that to 1st floor has 2-light
casement with small-paned glazing; right end has 2 small
windows to ground floor and later gabled oriel above, with
1:3:1-light single-chamfered-mullioned window.
Right return next to chapel has blocked elliptical-headed
window and leaded light. Left end has 1929 additions forming
canted angle and wing to rear, 1966 additions of single-storey
return wing and 2-storey rear wing.
Rear elevation has 4-centred entrance to cross-passage with
brick arch and niche above with C19 statue. 2-light, 3-light
and single-light windows to left; to right are six 2-storey
canted bays of 1929 with 1:2:1-light windows.
INTERIOR: some flat joists with runout stops; front corridor
inserted 1929. Chapel has single-vessel nave and sanctuary,
with north aisle of 1829.
East end: coped gable with kneelers and offset angle
buttresses to right; segmental-pointed window of 5
double-cusped lights, small window of pointed arch above and
enriched C19 rainwater head to left; blind return has cornice.
North aisle has coped west gable with kneelers and gabled bell
cote, angle buttresses; 3-light west window has intersecting
tracery; north return has similar windows flanking
buttress/stack.
South elevation has offset buttresses; double-chamfered
pointed entrance to left end; 2-light plate tracery window,
lancet, 3-light window and 2-light square-headed window both
with Perpendicular tracery, and traceried lancet to right end.
INTERIOR: roof has cusped arch braces to collars and queen
struts; sanctuary has blocked 3-light square-headed window to
north; 3-bay arcade to north aisle has octagonal piers and
head stops to hoods; north aisle has king post roof; west end
has vestibule with re-used panelling. Fittings: sanctuary has
bolection-moulded fielded panelling, fluted frieze and
cornice, large central panel with frieze with grapes and
wheat; piscina to south with arch over restored bowl; gabled
tabernacle to north; encaustic tiles. Aisle has organ to west
end and small octagonal font.
Monuments to members of the Simpson family to west end and C19
stained glass to south; 1984 east window by John Piper.
The hospital was founded as a place of refuge for pilgrims
after the city gates were closed, run by a community of
Augustinian brothers and sisters; it was refounded as an
almshouse and school in 1495, the school becoming the Grammar
School in the C16.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Oxford: 1970-:
P.279-89; Clayton H: St John's Hospital Lichfield: Lichfield:
1984-).
Listing NGR: SK1176909160
One of the chimneys.
Hospital of St John Without the Barrs and Chapel, Lichfield - chimney
This is the Hospital of St John Without the Barrs and Chapel in Lichfield.
Found it hard trying to take shots of it from the road - too much traffic. This is the best I could get.
Some shots include the Ford Tempest car showroom opposite.
On St John Street.
Grade I listed.
Hospital of St John Without the Barrs and Chapel, Lichfield
LICHFIELD
SK1109SE ST JOHN STREET
1094-1/8/167 (South West side)
05/02/52 Hospital of St John without the
Barrs and Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
ST JOHN STREET
(South West side)
St John's Hospital, including
Master's House and Chapel)
GV I
Almshouses and chapel. Founded 1135, by Bishop Roger de
Clinton; refounded 1495, by Bishop William Smith, when the
almshouse range was built; alterations and additions,1929, and
large addition of 1966-7 by Louis de Soissons; chapel extended
1829 and restored 1870. Brick with ashlar dressings; tile
roof; ashlar chapel.
PLAN: long range with later ranges forming U-plan, with chapel
to north. 2 storeys; 9-window range.
EXTERIOR: facade articulated by 8 large projecting stacks with
offsets, now disused; offset buttress to right end. Entrance
between 6th and 7th stacks has Tudor head in architrave with
label mould battened door with strap hinges; oval plaque
above, erected 1720, records the refounding of 1495, a
cartouche above with the arms of Bishop Smith. Most windows
are small, with brick sills, chamfered jambs and ashlar
lintels, and leaded glazing; larger window to left of
cartouche, windows to right of entrance are larger, that to
ground floor with brick label, that to 1st floor has 2-light
casement with small-paned glazing; right end has 2 small
windows to ground floor and later gabled oriel above, with
1:3:1-light single-chamfered-mullioned window.
Right return next to chapel has blocked elliptical-headed
window and leaded light. Left end has 1929 additions forming
canted angle and wing to rear, 1966 additions of single-storey
return wing and 2-storey rear wing.
Rear elevation has 4-centred entrance to cross-passage with
brick arch and niche above with C19 statue. 2-light, 3-light
and single-light windows to left; to right are six 2-storey
canted bays of 1929 with 1:2:1-light windows.
INTERIOR: some flat joists with runout stops; front corridor
inserted 1929. Chapel has single-vessel nave and sanctuary,
with north aisle of 1829.
East end: coped gable with kneelers and offset angle
buttresses to right; segmental-pointed window of 5
double-cusped lights, small window of pointed arch above and
enriched C19 rainwater head to left; blind return has cornice.
North aisle has coped west gable with kneelers and gabled bell
cote, angle buttresses; 3-light west window has intersecting
tracery; north return has similar windows flanking
buttress/stack.
South elevation has offset buttresses; double-chamfered
pointed entrance to left end; 2-light plate tracery window,
lancet, 3-light window and 2-light square-headed window both
with Perpendicular tracery, and traceried lancet to right end.
INTERIOR: roof has cusped arch braces to collars and queen
struts; sanctuary has blocked 3-light square-headed window to
north; 3-bay arcade to north aisle has octagonal piers and
head stops to hoods; north aisle has king post roof; west end
has vestibule with re-used panelling. Fittings: sanctuary has
bolection-moulded fielded panelling, fluted frieze and
cornice, large central panel with frieze with grapes and
wheat; piscina to south with arch over restored bowl; gabled
tabernacle to north; encaustic tiles. Aisle has organ to west
end and small octagonal font.
Monuments to members of the Simpson family to west end and C19
stained glass to south; 1984 east window by John Piper.
The hospital was founded as a place of refuge for pilgrims
after the city gates were closed, run by a community of
Augustinian brothers and sisters; it was refounded as an
almshouse and school in 1495, the school becoming the Grammar
School in the C16.
(Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Oxford: 1970-:
P.279-89; Clayton H: St John's Hospital Lichfield: Lichfield:
1984-).
Listing NGR: SK1176909160
One of the chimneys.