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Berkeley's Hospital: Chapel

A Grade I Listed Building in Worcester, Worcestershire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.1941 / 52°11'38"N

Longitude: -2.2223 / 2°13'20"W

OS Eastings: 384902

OS Northings: 255117

OS Grid: SO849551

Mapcode National: GBR 1G4.GYR

Mapcode Global: VH92T.F3JV

Plus Code: 9C4V5QVH+J3

Entry Name: Berkeley's Hospital: Chapel

Listing Date: 22 May 1954

Last Amended: 12 June 2001

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1390199

English Heritage Legacy ID: 489169

ID on this website: 101390199

Location: Worcester, Worcestershire, WR1

County: Worcestershire

District: Worcester

Electoral Ward/Division: Cathedral

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Worcester

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Worcestershire

Church of England Parish: Worcester St Nicholas and All Saints

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

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Description



WORCESTER

SO8455SE THE FOREGATE
620-1/12/612 (West side)
22/05/54 Berkeley's Hospital:
Chapel
(Formerly Listed as:
FOREGATE
(West side)
Berkeley's Hospital
(North and South ranges
with gateway and Chapel
at West end)

GV I

Chapel. Dated 1703 above entrance, with later restorations.
Endowed by Robert Berkeley. Reddish-orange brick in Flemish
bond with ashlar plinth (renewed), quoins and architraves;
plain tile roof, splayed and hipped. Single tall storey, 4
windows. Moulded plinth, quoins to full height. Central
entrance: double 10-raised-and-fielded-panel door with
L-hinges; bolection moulded architrave and dated keystone
between pilasters with acanthus corbel brackets to cornice,
pulvinated frieze and broken segmental pediment with coat of
arms. Above a statue of Robert Berkeley in round-arched niche.
Round-arched windows with tooled architraves and keystones,
moulded sills. Band over windows. Modillion cornice with
curvilinear modillion 'pediment' and crowning cupola. Rear: 3
straight-headed windows in tooled architraves, one similar
window to west end; to east end a round-arched window; windows
have coloured glass.
INTERIOR: plain, with quarry tile floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the almshouses (qv) and Chapel were endowed
by Robert Berkeley of Spetchley in 1692 for 12 poor men.
The Chapel occupies the west side of a courtyard with
Berkeley's Hospital: almshouses, gate lodges, piers and gates
(qv) to other sides, forming an important example of
Renaissance planning and one of the finest almshouse groups in
England.



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