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Warden's House and Chapel Adjoining Trinity Hospital at South-East Corner

A Grade II* Listed Building in Clun, Shropshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4231 / 52°25'23"N

Longitude: -3.0259 / 3°1'33"W

OS Eastings: 330334

OS Northings: 281058

OS Grid: SO303810

Mapcode National: GBR B5.NFQB

Mapcode Global: VH769.HCPB

Plus Code: 9C4RCXFF+6M

Entry Name: Warden's House and Chapel Adjoining Trinity Hospital at South-East Corner

Listing Date: 1 December 1951

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1054456

English Heritage Legacy ID: 257249

ID on this website: 101054456

Location: Clun, Shropshire, SY7

County: Shropshire

Civil Parish: Clun

Built-Up Area: Clun

Traditional County: Shropshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire

Church of England Parish: Clun

Church of England Diocese: Hereford

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Description


SO 3081-3181
13/160
1.12.51

CLUN C.P.
HOSPITAL LANE
(East side)
13/160
Warden's House and Chapel adjoining Trinity Hospital at South-east corner

GV
II*

Warden's house, now house and chapel. Circa 1857. Coursed and roughly
squared limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; plain tile roofs. L-
plan house with chapel to South. House: one storey and attic. Brick
ridge stacks off-centre to left and right; 2 central gabled semi-dormers
with verge parapets and 3-light casements. Ground floor 4-bay arcaded
loggia with square piers, moulded capitals and round arches; 2 casements
set back behind right half-glazed door to left; boarded door into hospital
in left-hand return front of loggia. Interior: dog-leg staircase with
pendants, closed string, turned balusters, moulded ramped handrail and
square newel-posts; moulded architraves. Chapel: lancet style. 3
bays. Diagonal buttresses, verge parapets; gabled bellcote to West
with chamfered-arched opening. Paired West lancets and triple East
lancets with continuous returned hoodmoulds; four- centred chamfered-
arched doorway in loggia to North with 4 flush-panelled studded doorway.
Interior: roof with pairs of purlins; arch-braced collar trusses with
king posts from collar to apex; C17-style 1857 box pews; plaque
commemorating foundation of hospital; glass in East windows lettered
"HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF NORTHAMPTON, KG,/FOUNDER/1618", "THOMAS MUSGRAVE,
D.D./LORD BISHOP OF HEREFORD/VISITOR 1837" and "EDWARD HERBERT, EARL OF
POWIS K.G./LORD of the HONOR and LORDSHIP OF CLUN/1845". Graded II*
on account of relationship with Trinity Hospital (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SO3033481058

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