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Bronze Plaque to William Fellowes -former N& N Hospital |
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County | Norfolk | District Council | Norwich City Council | |||||||||||||||||||||
Civil Parish or equivalent | Norwich | Town/Village* | Norwich | |||||||||||||||||||||
Road | St Stephens | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Precise Location | On former outpatient building of Norfolk and Norwich Hospital | |||||||||||||||||||||||
OS Grid Ref | TG227078 | Postcode | NR2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Setting | On building | Access | Public | |||||||||||||||||||||
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By public subscription | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Design & Constrn period |
ca. 1927 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Inscriptions | In roundel N&NH intertwined Under bust of Fellowes: WILLIAM FELLOWES/OF SHOTESHAM/FOUNDED THIS HOSPITAL/ IN 1771 On stone panel: THIS OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT/ WAS RECONSTRUCTED & ENLARGED/ IN 1927/ BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION AS A/MEMORIAL TO THOSE OF/NORFOLK AND NORWICH. WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES/ IN THE GREAT WAR/ 1914-1918 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description (physical) |
The large plaque dominates the first floor of the St Stephens street side of the enlarged narrow side of the 1927 rebuilt outpatient building. Fellowes is shown in a bust length portrait in contemporary costume and wig. The bust rests on a ledge with an inscription identifying him set into a classically inspired field. There are no obvious surviving images of Fellowes for the sculptor to have followed. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Description (iconographical) |
William Fellowes had founded a village hospital in Shotesham –where he was the squire- sometime before 1754. The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital came late in the wave of hospital building in the provinces which began in the 1730s. By 1744 there was pressure for Norwich to have one of these new voluntary hospitals although impetus was lost after 1761 when Thomas Hayter Bishop of Norwich and a leading advocate moved to a bishopric in London. William Fellowes called an open meeting in 1770 when subscriptions were opened. A plaster model for the sculpture was unveiled in the Victorian part of the hospital in 1984. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date taken:
13/3/2006
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On Site Inspection |
Date: 13/5/2006 |
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Sources and References |
Meeres, Frank, A History of Norwich, Chichester, 1998, 110; Batty Shaw, Anthony, Norfolk and Norwich Medicine: a retrospect, The Norwich medico-Chirurgical Society, 1992, 55, 57 and pl. 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Date entered: 22/5/2007 |
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