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The Eleanor Bowes Hospital

A Grade II* Listed Building in Richmond, North Yorkshire

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Latitude: 54.4067 / 54°24'24"N

Longitude: -1.7308 / 1°43'50"W

OS Eastings: 417574

OS Northings: 501284

OS Grid: NZ175012

Mapcode National: GBR JKCH.32

Mapcode Global: WHC6D.DH2L

Plus Code: 9C6WC749+MM

Entry Name: The Eleanor Bowes Hospital

Listing Date: 1 August 1952

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1289900

English Heritage Legacy ID: 322855

ID on this website: 101289900

Location: Boulton Crofts, North Yorkshire, DL10

County: North Yorkshire

District: Richmondshire

Civil Parish: Richmond

Built-Up Area: Richmond

Traditional County: Yorkshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): North Yorkshire

Church of England Parish: Richmond with Holy Trinity with Hudswell

Church of England Diocese: Leeds

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NZ 1701 SE
4/10

ANCHORAGE HILL (east side)
No 8 (The Eleanor Bowes Hospital)

(Formerly listed as No 7 (The Eleanor Bowes Hospital), ANCHORAGE HILL)

1.8.52.

GV
II*
Almshouse founded in 1607 by Eleanor Bowes for three widows, the building incorporating the remains of the C12 chapel to St Edmund the King.

MATERIALS: uncoursed rubble stone with ashlar buttresses. Stone slate roof.

EXTERIOR: the single storey building is divided into three bays by C12 ashlar buttresses. The gables are raised and coped. The south side has a C17 doorway and a second modern doorway along with C19 windows. The east gable-end has a blocked two-light C14 window with ogee tracery to its arched head. Set just above sill level there is a deep string course incorporating circular medallions. The west gable, rebuilt 1607, has an externally projecting ridge stack that incorporates a panel set within a moulded frame, the panel bearing the arms of Bowes impaling Musgrave. The kneelers supporting the gable coping stones are shaped and carved with coats of arms, Bowes to the north and Musgrave to the south. The gable end includes two windows flanking the chimney, that on the north side being blocked and set higher than that on the south side, this having a sash window divided into very small panes. Extending south from the gable is a tall boundary wall with a moulded cornice and a simple Tudor-arched doorway.

INTERIOR: the west wall has an early C17 fireplace with a modelled plaster frieze set above. The east wall has a similar frieze in two portions, each showing a coat of arms supported by cupids. The details of the coats of arms are indistinct but are thought to be those of the Bowes and Musgrave families.

Listing NGR: NZ1757401284

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