List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: FLEMING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
List Entry Number: 1242077
Location
FLEMING MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, BURDON TERRACE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Newcastle upon Tyne
District Type: Metropolitan Authority
Parish: Non Civil Parish
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 18-Nov-1987
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 441443
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List Entry Description
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History
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Details
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NZ 26 NW and NZ 26 NE NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE BURDON TERRACE (north side)
8/611 and 9/611 Fleming Memorial Hospital
II
Hospital for sick children. 1887 by John Quilter and George Wheelhouse, for
John Fleming. Red brick (in Flemish Coud) with sandstone ashlar dressings;
lakeland slate roof with lead cupolas. Jacobean style. Symmetrical front of
2 and 3 storeys, 15 bays. Plinth, quoins, frieze and cornice above each floor,
coped parapets. Projecting 5-bay central section has frontispiece of 3 full
storeys. Glazed double doors and fanlight, in pilasters and enriched archivolt,
framed by paired, half fluted pilasters and entablative, with carved spandrels,
the centre section of an ashlar 2-storey canted bay. Similar pilasters on
first floor support segmental pediment, with armorial cariving, and balustraded
parapet. Carved name panel below central windows; windows in side sections.
Flanking 2-storey bay have angle canted back to 3-storey outer bays under
shaped gables with oculi and bands.
Symmetrical 5-bay outer sections have central wider windows with scrolled
feet and balustraded balconies on first floor, segmental pediments above.
projecting chimney breast between each pair of outer bays. All windows stone
mullioned and transomed (except for first floor centre and second floor in
gabled bays, altered) in quoined surrounds.
Pyramidal roof over centre bay has terracotta finial and tall flanking chimneys.
All chimneys corniced and quoined. Central on ridge of outer sections are
Small cupolas with lead bases, arcaded downs and wrought iron finials.
Similar treatment on returns. Interior: main staircase with elaborate cast
iron balustrade and domed rooflight; original panelling in hall and stairway.
Doorway pilasters rest on 2 dated foundation stones, 1 laid by Lady Armstrong,
with names of professionals, the other recording the eponymous benefactor's
gift "in the Jubilee year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in memory
of Mary his loving wife who died 7th March 1882." (Later C20 insertion on
right return is not not of interest)
Listing NGR: NZ2497665872
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Map
National Grid Reference: NZ 24976 65872
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