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Herefordshire: Ledbury. 4 drawings of proposed new buildings for St Catherine's Hospital....
Catalogue reference: MF 1/66
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- MF 1/66
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1817 Dec 01
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Description (What the record is about)
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Herefordshire: Ledbury. 4 drawings of proposed new buildings for St Catherine's Hospital. (1) 'Elevation next the Street of the proposed New Buildings'. No scale shown. Endorsed: 'B'. (2) General plan, showing proposed new buildings. Scale: 3 inches to 80 feet [1:320]. Compass indicator. Endorsed: 'C'. (3) Basement plan. Scale: 3 inches to 40 feet [1:160]. Endorsed: 'D'. (4) Plan of rooms on ground floor. Scale: 3 inches to 40 feet [1:160]. Endorsed: 'E'. Endorsements on all sheets state that these are the plans referred to in an affidavit sworn by Robert Smirke, 1 December 1817, in suits in the Exchequer: Attorney General at the relation of Mary Dalby and others v the Dean and Chapter of Hereford and the Master of Ledbury Hospital, and Attorney General at the relation of Charles Lucy and others v the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, Thomas Birt, clerk, and John Napleton, clerk, [Master of the Hospital, 1800-1817]. Neither Smirke's affidavit nor any plan marked 'A' have been traced among affidavits in Exchequer suits, 1817-1818 (E 103/35 and E 103/36).
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These drawings were found in 2003 during the sorting and cataloguing of the series C 125, Master Senior's Documents. It is unclear when or why they came to be among this material; no other papers relating to the Exchequer suits concerning St Catherine's Hospital have been traced among Chancery records.
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For earlier plans for the proposed rebuilding of St Catherine's Hospital see MPE 1/716
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- C 125, unnumbered bundle
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 35 cm x 52 cm
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- Open Document, Open Description
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The proposed re-ordering and rebuilding of the almshouses of St Catherine's Hospital, Ledbury, were the subject of successive suits in the Exchequer between 1796 and 1818, culminating in 1819 in the passing of a private Act of Parliament to enable the Dean and Chapter of Hereford to rebuild the almshouses and better regulate the affairs of the charity. At least two sets of plans are known to have been obtained from well-known architects of the day: from Robert Mylne in 1809-1810 (not built), and from Robert Smirke in 1817 (built in part, in the early 1820s).
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