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Shaw Street, WORCESTER, WR1 3QQ

Double doors under a single pediment on a building on The Butts. The pediment is echoed in the building next door.

This business in Shaw Street occupies a grand building with pilasters and a small pediment, listed Grade II and possibly constructed around 1840 when this area was redeveloped. See: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101390153-3-and-4-shaw-street-worcester

A very grandiose paired Greek Doric porch under one pediment, "as the Greeks would not have done it".

Formerly Berkeley's Hospital: almshouses.

http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-489169-berkeley-s-hospital-chapel-worcestershir

Built between 1692 and 1703 as Berkeley's Hospital, still in occupation as almshouses, run by the Worcester Municipal Charities. The building at the end is the former chapel, now a meeting room. The Historic England listing refers to the Court as 'one of the finest almshouse groups in England'. Listed Grade I, the chapel as a separate entity. The WMC's brochure has a historic picture showing two rows of mature (cherry) trees growing where the lawns are today. They were removed in 1952 to create more light in the courtyard.

Foregate - historic almshouses and gate lodges (1692-1703) with later additions and alterations.

Colourful figure on the chapel wall in this historic almshouse quarter.

This Grade I listed building dated from 1703 and was endowed by Robert Berkeley. The statue in the niche is of Robert Berkeley. Historic England description 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. Source: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1390199