Sir William Turner'S Hospital

Sir William Turner's Hospital comprises almshouses, charity schools, and a chapel, initially constructed in 1674/76, with substantial rebuilding and extensions between 1720 and 1750. The chapel was designed by James Gibbs. The buildings are largely brick with sandstone dressings; the chapel is ashlar. Lakeland slate covers the roofs, with lead on the chapel. A stone-flagged pavement fronts the almshouses on three sides of a courtyard that opens to the north.

The south side features a three-bay, apsidal, gable-fronted chapel flanked by two-storey, three-bay houses. On the east and west sides are two-storey, 14-bay almshouses, with slightly projecting north end bays. The Baroque chapel has a four-stage, projecting central tower over a porch with round-headed openings, the front opening framed by a Tuscan surround. The first stage displays an inscribed tablet with scrolled wings and a broken pediment, bearing the arms of the founder, and has circular windows on the returns. Cornices separate the stages. The rusticated second stage features round-headed windows. The third stage has recessed, chamfered angles, a clock face at the front, and circular windows on the returns. An octagonal cupola has round-headed, louvred bell openings, topped with a ball finial and wyvern weather vane. Segment-headed and round-headed windows with glazing bars are present in the flanking bays, all set within classical surrounds. Statues of a boy and a girl are positioned at the ends of the parapet.

The houses and almshouses have a moulded plinth, a band separating the floors, a cornice below a straight parapet with flat copings, and sash windows with glazing bars within architraves. The houses have six-panel doors with overlights in architraves, accessed by three steps. The almshouses feature paired two-panel doors in architraves, set beneath an entablature with a shouldered frieze. The north end bays each have a six-panel door within a chamfered-quoin surround, with a double keystone, a frieze, a cornice set on fluted consoles, and a round-headed niche containing a statue of a pensioner. The south returns incorporate sundials in the parapet. Venetian windows are located on the first floor of the north returns. Rainwater heads bear lion masks, initials, and the date "1742". Hipped roofs are topped with corniced ridge stacks. The houses have one and two-storey rear extensions, including a former four-by-two-bay schoolhouse. Area walls at the rear of the almshouses have chamfered copings.

Inside the chapel, are rich decorations incorporating stucco, woodwork, and ironwork. A cross-vaulted ceiling is supported by Ionic columns, with side galleries linked by a cantilevered bridge. A Venetian window contains stained glass by Sebastiano Ricci and William Price of York. The floors are patterned marble. Certain fittings may have been relocated from Gibbs' chapel at Canon's Park, Middlesex (built 1716–1720; sold in 1747). A clock, made in 1749 by Henry Hindley of York, is housed in the tower. Garages to the south are not of notable architectural interest.