Description

STAFFORD

SJ9223SW MILL STREET
590-1/10/72 (South side)
16/01/51 Noell's Almshouses and attached
boundary wall
(Formerly Listed as:
MILL STREET
(South side)
The College (including chapel))

II*

Almshouses comprising 23 apartments, and chapel. c1660;
restored 1866; extended from 12 to 23 apartments, 1960. For
Sir Martin Noell. Ashlar; tile roof with ashlar stacks;
rendered rear wings. Jacobean style.
PLAN: U-plan with central chapel.
EXTERIOR: single storey with attic; symmetrical 6-window
central range with chapel breaking forward under shaped gable
with short flanking embattled parapets. Plain plinth and
dripcourse over ground floor, raised to chapel.
Chapel has pointed entrance with continuous mouldings in
square-headed architrave, flanking pilasters; segmental
pedimental feature over drip has raised panel supporting
architraved panel with Noell arms with flanking Doric columns
on enriched plinths, entablature with ogival finials flanking
central ogee-arched panel; flanking windows of 2
trefoil-headed lights. 2-light double-hollow-chamfered-
mullioned windows with leaded glazing to sides, flanking
paired Tudor-headed entrances with large lintels and plank
doors; 2-light dormer windows in coped gables; entrances in
gabled porches across re-entrant angles.
Returns of wings each have 3 windows and dormers and one pair
of entrances. 6 cruciform stacks. Gable ends of wings have
coped gables and Stafford knots, one inverted Rear has coped
gable ends and two C20 gabled wings flanking gable of chapel
which has 3-light ovolo-mullioned window with intersecting
tracery. Similar returns, that to right has attached boundary
wall which continues round 2 sides of rear garden.
INTERIOR of chapel has 2 simple roof trusses to ends of barrel
vault with collar purlin; C19 benches; window has ex-situ C19
stained glass said to be taken from St Mary Castlechurch (qv).
(Victoria County History of Staffordshire: Greenslade MW: A
History of Stafford: London: 1979-: 266-7).

Listing NGR: SJ9206623063

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17545225

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