Former Circular Ward For St Giles Hospital

SOUTHWARK

TQ3376 HAVIL STREET 636-1/11/422 (West side) 30/12/86 No.7 Former circular ward for St Giles' Hospital (Formerly Listed as: HAVIL STREET No.7 Circular Ward at St Giles Hospital)

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Hospital ward. 1888. By Robert P Whellock. For St Giles' Hospital. Dark red brick with stone dressings; tiled steeply pitched roof. Circular plan with polygonal extension to west and smaller north projection. 4 identical storeys, basement and attic with gabled dormers above brick cornice. Round-headed windows to basement; small-paned casements with fixed overlights and stone lintels to upper floors, square-headed except those at 3rd floor beneath gables, which are round-headed with keystones. Pilasters between windows rising from ground to 3rd-floor sills. Iron balconies on all floors to south-west. Ventilation shaft runs full height of building, emerging above roofline as central octagonal chimney stack with gablets below. Each floor designed as an open ward arranged radially around outer wall. North and west extensions designed for lifts, nurses' accommodation etc., and some isolation wards at attic level. Basement originally a fuel store for central furnace. INTERIOR: not inspected. Designed as one of 2 identical towers, the second never built. Of historic interest as early and rare example of circular hospital ward.

Listing NGR: TQ3319276921