Partis College on Newbridge Hill,
Bath,
Somerset
( en, All The People of Somerset)
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England
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, was built as large block of
almshouses between 1825 and 1827. It has been designated as a Grade I
listed building
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It was founded by Ann and Fletcher Partis for women "who had been left in reduced circumstances", and still provides accommodation, in 30 two-storey terraced houses set around three sides of a quadrangle, for women, aged over 50 in membership of the
Church of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the established Christian church in England and the mother church of the international Anglican Communion. It traces its history to the Christian church recorded as existing in the Roman province of Britai ...
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Fletcher Partis was a barrister who purchased the land for the almshouses, however he died and the further development was undertaken by his wife.
The building is in a
Greek Revival
The Greek Revival was an architectural movement which began in the middle of the 18th century but which particularly flourished in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, predominantly in northern Europe and the United States and Canada, but a ...
style. The main range has 32-
bays with a centre piece with an unfluted
Ionic portico fronting the chapel. On each side are wings with five apartments and beyond them pavilions. The east and west ranges each have 16 bays.
The lodge, walls, gates and gatepiers are also listed buildings.
In 1862,
George Gilbert Scott redesigned the original chapel,
which had been built by
Henry Goodridge.
In 1929 a new block was added to provide a nursing wing, after funds were given by Dame Violet Wills.
[ In 2015 Right Reverend Peter Hancock the ]Bishop of Bath and Wells
The Bishop of Bath and Wells heads the Church of England Diocese of Bath and Wells in the Province of Canterbury in England.
The present diocese covers the overwhelmingly greater part of the (ceremonial) county of Somerset and a small area of D ...
became the patron of the almshouses.
See also
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Residential buildings completed in 1827
Grade I listed buildings in Bath, Somerset
Grade I listed almshouses
Buildings and structures in Bath, Somerset
Organisations based in Bath, Somerset
Christianity in Bath, Somerset
Charities based in Somerset
Almshouses in Somerset
1825 establishments in England