Entrance Screen Loggias Forts Flat And Outhouses To Sir William Turners Hospital

The entrance screen, loggias, forts, flat, and outhouses to Sir William Turner's Hospital were built around 1750, likely designed by James Gibbs, and were renewed in 1964 by W. Dawson from Kirkbymoorside. The structures include wrought iron gates and a screen set on a dwarf wall, with a brick wall featuring a sandstone plinth and limestone copings. The loggias and forts are made of sandstone ashlar, while the flat, outbuildings, and returns in the courtyard are constructed from brick with stone dressings. The roofs are made of lead and bitumen felt, and the walkways are stone-paved.

The central gates consist of two leaves with a scrolled double lockrail and a segmental overthrow, adorned with foliate and scrolled cresting that flanks a central coat-of-arms and an elevated lion passant crest. The side panels and flanking screens are set on dwarf walls with moulded copings and feature similar crestings. The screens are accompanied by short one-storey, three-bay loggias on either side, which connect the courtyard to the terminal mock forts.

Each inner loggia has a tripartite round arcade supported by chamfered rusticated piers on plain bases, with moulded imposts and archivolts. There are slender towers on either side, complete with plinths, cornices, embattled parapets, and blind quatrefoils in panels on the returns. The outer loggias feature chamfered-rusticated elliptical arcades with plain square bases, imposts, and keystones, as well as moulded cornices and low straight parapets.

The forts consist of three bays by three bays, with a moulded plinth. The middle bays are slightly convex and have mock cannon barrels that project from segment-headed panels under hoodmoulds. The end bays feature slightly-projecting tapered towers with cross-arrow loops. Continuous pointed-arcaded cornices run beneath the embattled parapets. The west fort has a flat roof, while the east fort is roofless. The west return of the flat at the rear of the west loggia includes two sash windows with glazing bars and an embattled parapet. The returns in the courtyard have paired six-panel doors with keystones and gauged brick flat arches. The interiors of the loggias are finished with coved stucco ceilings and rear walls.