The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
Houses, formerly Hospital
Houses, formerly Hospital
St Giles Hospital is a former almshouse occupying 147-155 St Owen’s Street, Hereford, and now offering sheltered housing for the elderly. It consists of a terrace of five cottages built c.1770, a single storey and attic high with a pediment in the centre. Construction is of dressed sandstone with a brick pediment and eaves and a 20thc concrete tiled roof. The Hospital was formerly the residential part of a complex that also included a 12thc circular chapel immediately to the SE, whose foundations were uncovered during road-widening work in 1927. On the gabled wall at the NW end of the almshouses is reset a Herefordshire School tympanum from St Giles Chapel nearby. This is now protected by a glass-fronted case installed by Headland Archaeology in 2013.