The Vicarage

WORCESTER

SO8456SE ST GEORGE'S SQUARE 620-1/6/556 (North side) 22/05/54 No.23 The Vicarage (Formerly Listed as: ST GEORGE'S SQUARE (North side) No.23 St George's Vicarage)

GV II

Vicarage. Abuts No.24 (qv) to west. c1830 with later additions and alterations including probably late C19 range to rear. Brick with painted stucco dressings; hipped slate roof, ridge and hip tiles. Four brick stacks (pair to each end), each with 2 string courses, oversailing detail and pots. PLAN: double-depth with central hallway and service wing to rear left. EXTERIOR: symmetrical facade of 3 storeys. 3 first floor windows, central French window with margin-glazing and fanlight. Otherwise ground- and first-floors have 8/8 sashes with flat arches of red rubbed brick; second-floor has central 3/6 sash and 4/8 sashes. All in plain reveals and with sills. Central entrance with distyle Tuscan porch and engaged pilasters and entablature; 5-panel door, top 4 glazed, bottom panel flush-beaded with incised elliptical motif, fanlight of circle-and-teardrop design. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: Venetian shutters and shutter boxes to outer first-floor windows, hinged shutters to second-floor. Central first-floor window has individual balcony with cast-iron scrolled-heart pattern balusters (similar design to those used on nos 28 and 29 (qv) St. George's Square) and domed, Moorish-style hood.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Marked as vicarage on 1886 O.S. map and possibly one of the three buildings shown on the N side of the Square on Clement's map of 1828; thus assumed to be the vicarage for the first Church of St George, built 1828, demolished pre-1895 to make way for new Church (qv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Worcestershire: Harmondsworth: 1968-1985: 334-5).