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Swan with Two Nicks and Drummonds Bar, 28 New Street
Formerly a house, now a pub. This building dates from c1550. The brick facade was added to the original timber framed building in the early/mid 18th century. By 1764 it was a tavern leased by Charles Lea. Source: Listed Buildings Online http://lbonline.english-heritage.org.uk. LBS Number: 488970.
Image: © Phil Champion
Taken: 13 Jun 2009
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Plaque at King Charles House, New Street
Image: © Phil Champion
Taken: 13 Jun 2009
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Tower of Old St Martin's Church, Worcester
The contrast between the blue brick of the 1768 church and the lighter material used for the upper stages of the tower, completed in 1780, can be clearly seen.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 10 Apr 2011
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Sundial at Laslett's Almshouses
This dial was erected in 1912 by the Corporation and Magistrates of Worcester in tribute to Thomas Southall, chief magistrate of the city and a trustee of the almshouse foundation. The inscription on the dial reads: "Life is fleeting as the shadow."
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 10 Apr 2011
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Stained glass from Holy Trinity, Shrub Hill
The church of the Holy Trinity, near Shrub Hill Station in Worcester, was closed in 1965 (its centenary year) and demolished two years later. This small panel, its design symbolising the Trinity geometrically, was rescued from the east window by a Mr & Mrs Cox and placed in the chapel of Laslett's Almshouses in 1969.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 10 Apr 2011
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Gate to Laslett's Almshouses
Detail of the wrought ironwork on the entrance from Union Street. Even the apostrophe is there!
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 10 Apr 2011
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Colville Memorial Window in Old St Martin's Church, Worcester
The east window of the south aisle was designed by Frederick Preedy in 1857 and shows the Transfiguration. The disciples Peter, James and John cower in awe, shielding their faces from the dazzling glory of the transfigured Christ who is flanked by Moses and Elijah.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 10 Apr 2011
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Chapel of Laslett's Almshouses
The small chapel of the almshouses, designed by Lewis Sheppard in 1911 in a free Gothic style, is dedicated to St Lawrence. The interior is simple, and because of the orientation of the buildings the plain window behind the altar faces north rather than the customary east.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 10 Apr 2011
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Interior of Old St Martin's Church looking east
The broad interior of Anthony Keck's rebuilt church, like that designed by James Gibbs a few decades earlier for St Martin in the Fields, London, contrasts vaulted aisles supported by plain Ionic columns with a flat ceiling in the central nave. Keck must have been inspired by Gibbs. Between 1855 and 1862 William Jeffrey Hopkins restored the interior and added the Gothic tracery to the east window. The high altar is of French design. In this view we see the cross and statues veiled for Passiontide.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 10 Apr 2011
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Interior of Old St Martin's Church looking west
The west gallery was erected in 1811 and restored in 1836. It is supported by two slender cast-iron columns which sit just behind the main pillars. The organ, by the Worcester firm of Nicholson, dates from the 1870s but was moved to the gallery only in the 1920s. The panelled dado was constructed in 1856 from the recycled 18th-century pews.
Image: © Tiger
Taken: 10 Apr 2011
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