Description

YORK

SE6052SW MUSEUM STREET
1112-1/27/795 (North West side)
14/06/54 St Leonard's Hospital remains
(Formerly Listed as:
MUSEUM STREET
Ruins of St Leonard's Hospital)

GV I

Ruined remains of chapel, infirmary and entrance passage of St
Leonard's Hospital. c1240. Magnesian limestone.
EXTERIOR: 2-storey 2-bay undercroft and chapel; 4x3-bay
undercroft and 4-bay entrance passage beneath infirmary.
Chapel front towards Library Square: 2-storey buttressed gable
end on chamfered plinth. Right return has C20 battened panel
door in chamfered doorway with 2-centred head and hoodmould on
moulded imposts. Undercroft has splayed lancet windows on each
side. Chapel gable end has triple lancet window beneath
moulded hood originally on detached shafts of which moulded
bases and capitals survive: windows on both returns have
2-centred heads, corbel stopped hoods and continuous
sillstrings. In gable apex is cusped oculus in chevron moulded
surround.
INTERIOR: not accessible. Infirmary undercroft doorway to left
of chapel similar to chapel doorway. Undercroft vaulted in
chamfered ribs springing from octagonal piers with moulded
bases and capitals or from moulded corbels. Windows at rear
are rectangular with splayed surrounds on the outside,
shouldered inside. Entrance passage arches at each end are
semicircular: outer end to Museum Gardens is of 3 orders, the
inner chamfered: right side dies into the wall, the left
springs from chamfered respond with moulded impost. Inner end
to Library Square is of 2 orders, both chamfered and springing
from responds with moulded capitals and bases. Interior
vaulted with chamfered ribs springing from moulded corbels.
Scheduled Ancient Monument.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 93).

Listing NGR: SE6005652059

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17530582

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)