St Leonards Hospital Remains York, England
Listed Building Data
St Leonards Hospital Remains has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1257087
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 14 June 1954
- Name
- ST LEONARDS HOSPITAL REMAINS
- Location
- ST LEONARDS HOSPITAL REMAINS, MUSEUM STREET
- District
- York
- Grid Reference
- SE 60052 52049
- Easting
- 460051.9500
- Northing
- 452049.0220
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
YORK
SE6052SW MUSEUM STREET 1112-1/27/795 (North West side) 14/06/54 St Leonard's Hospital remains (Formerly Listed as: MUSEUM STREET Ruins of St Leonard's Hospital)
GV I
Ruined remains of chapel, infirmary and entrance passage of St Leonard's Hospital. c1240. Magnesian limestone. EXTERIOR: 2-storey 2-bay undercroft and chapel; 4x3-bay undercroft and 4-bay entrance passage beneath infirmary. Chapel front towards Library Square: 2-storey buttressed gable end on chamfered plinth. Right return has C20 battened panel door in chamfered doorway with 2-centred head and hoodmould on moulded imposts. Undercroft has splayed lancet windows on each side. Chapel gable end has triple lancet window beneath moulded hood originally on detached shafts of which moulded bases and capitals survive: windows on both returns have 2-centred heads, corbel stopped hoods and continuous sillstrings. In gable apex is cusped oculus in chevron moulded surround. INTERIOR: not accessible. Infirmary undercroft doorway to left of chapel similar to chapel doorway. Undercroft vaulted in chamfered ribs springing from octagonal piers with moulded bases and capitals or from moulded corbels. Windows at rear are rectangular with splayed surrounds on the outside, shouldered inside. Entrance passage arches at each end are semicircular: outer end to Museum Gardens is of 3 orders, the inner chamfered: right side dies into the wall, the left springs from chamfered respond with moulded impost. Inner end to Library Square is of 2 orders, both chamfered and springing from responds with moulded capitals and bases. Interior vaulted with chamfered ribs springing from moulded corbels. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 93).
Listing NGR: SE6005652059
