Damers Hospital

Damers Hospital, built in 1836 and later, was originally a Poor Law Institution. The building is included on the heritage register primarily for its east front and chapel. Designed by George Wilkinson, the main building is constructed of Portland or Ridgeway stone with hammer dressing, and features red brick dressings. It has a hipped slate roof, and is two storeys high with nine ranges of sash windows, those on the ground floor having glazing bars. The central three bays project forward, highlighted by a plain band at first floor level, a moulded eaves cornice, and a pediment. The central doorway is topped with an overscaled modillion cornice. The chapel, dating from circa 1870, is built of brown brick with moulded diaper work around the upper part of the apse exterior, and incorporates a moulded yellow brick cornice. It has a pitched tile roof, an open fleche with a spirelet at the west end, and a polygonal apse with paired lancet windows separated by ashlar buttresses.