St
George's House Buildings
The original location: Otley
Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England. 1897 - 1955
The original St George's
building showing later additions.
In 1898, in response to
the desire of many of the Police, St George's House was opened at
Harrogate, Yorkshire, under the title of the Northern Police Orphanage.
The property, called St George's, consisting of a large house and nearly
twelve acres
of land had been secured
by Miss Gurney in 1897 and placed in the hands of Trustees (the
Christian Police Trust Corporation Ltd).
At first, a portion of the premises was devoted to the use of the Police
Convalescents but in 1902-03 a new building was erected
within the St George's grounds for the Northern Police Convalescent
Home, a service which is still being provided to this day.
Ground
Floor Plan of Northern Police
Orphanage c1900
Later renamed St George's House.
Ground Floor
A |
Boys' Toilet |
I |
Girls' Matrons'
Sitting Room |
Q |
Maids' Sitting & Dining Room |
B |
Boiler/Heating
Room |
J |
Girls' Play Room |
R |
Superintendant's Sitting/Dining Room |
C |
Coal Storage |
K |
Sewing Room |
S |
Superintendant's Office |
D |
Laundry |
L |
Foyer |
T |
Entrance Vestibule |
E |
Childrens' Pantry
& Wash Room |
M |
Surgery facilities |
U |
Superintendant's Assistant's Office |
F |
Superintendant/Visitors Toilet |
N |
Surgery |
V |
Children's Assembly Room |
G |
Kitchen |
O |
Food Store |
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H |
Children's Dining
Room |
P |
Food Store |
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First Floor Plan of
Northern Police Orphanage c1900
Later renamed St George's House.
First Floor
A |
Senior Girls'
Toilets |
I |
Girls' Maids'
Bedroom |
Q |
Junior Boys' Dormitory |
B |
Senior Girls'
Bathroom |
J |
Girls' Maids'
Bedroom |
R |
Junior Boys' Dormitory |
C |
Senior Girls'
Dormitory |
K |
Sewing Room |
S |
Nursery |
D |
Senior Girls'
Dormitory |
L |
Superintendant's
Bathroom |
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|
E |
Junior Girls'
Dormitory |
M |
Superintendant's
Bedroom |
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|
F |
Junior Girls'
Dormitory |
N |
Senior Girls'
Dormitory |
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|
G |
Junior Girls'
Bathroom/Toilet |
O |
Junior Boys'
Dormitory |
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H |
Senior Girls'
Matron Bedroom |
P |
Junior Boys'
Dormitory |
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Henry
Sutton Chorley MA Oxon, one of the principals of the Architectural group
Chorley, Connon & Chorley who worked on the designs of some of St
George’s later buildings.
Since the opening of St George's House, a sanatorium, gardener's
cottage and a large gymnasium were added to the original building, a
portion of which in 1914, of necessity was rebuilt and enlarged,
with a laundry added.
In 1928-29 a wing for the boys, comprising two dormitories, a study/common room
and bedrooms for the staff, was inserted between the house and
the gymnasium, while in 1930-31 a wing for the girls, called the 'Gurney
Wing', was added to the back of the house overlooking Harlow Moor Road.
This wing consists of a large playroom for the girls, a dormitory above
for little girls and one above that for the little boys.
The girls' downstairs washroom was also included in the wing, modernised and increased in size.
The main entrance foyer of the original
structure showing Miss Knocker's Study on the
left hand side and Miss Adam's office to the
right hand side.
View showing all of the
main buildings visible from the front.
Building
1
2
3
4
5 6
1
South Wing Extension:Food Store/Pantries/ Staff
Bedrooms/Bathrooms//Sewing Room/ Sick Wing located to rear of this building
2
Original
Building:
Foyer/Miss
Knocker's Study/Dining Room/Day Cloak Room/Maids Dining Room/Pantry/Miss
Adams'
Office/Assembly-Music-Religious Instruction Room/Management & Staff
Bedrooms/Girls’ Dormitories
Nursery/Boys’ Dormitories/Girls’ Playroom/Washroom
3
Princess Mary
Wing:
Boys’ Common Room/Study/Boot
Room/Washrooms/Boys’
Dormitories/Bathrooms/Master's
accommodation
4
Gymnasium Wing:
Gymnasium/Stage/Apparatus Room/Sewing
Room/Wash Rooms/Toilet/Boot Room.
5
Shower Block
6
Greenhouse: (standing
separately)
7
Gurney Wing:
located behind the original building (not visible on Photo) Girls’
Playroom & Dormitories/ Boys’ Dormitories
8
Gardener’s House:
located behind Greenhouse (not
visible on Photo)
Princess Mary, the Princess
Royal, visits St George's House for the official opening of the newly
built
Boys Wing, on 31 May,1930.
The Architect, Colonel R.B.Armistead of Bradford,
presented Her Royal Highness with a gold key with
which she unlocked the Wing. The door was thereafter
known as the "The Princess Mary Door"
Princess Mary, the then
Princess Royal and Patron of
Major Fawkes, Princess Mary, her husband Viscount
St George's arriving at St George's with Major
Fawkes Lascelles aka Lord Harewood, Sir William Ingilby and Lady
to officiate at the opening of the new
Boys Wing. Ingilby of Ripley
Castle, Yorkshire.
Princess Mary with Major
Fawkes coming down the red
Some of the visitors and police, present during the visit !
carpeted front steps of St George's,
followed by
Sir William Ingilby and Viscount Lascelles
St George's House
The second location: Albany
Lodge, 16 Hereford St, Harrogate. 1955 - 1956
After
St George's was relocated to Albany Lodge in 1955 the buildings and land
where sold, later all structures were demolished
and the site redeveloped. The Police Convalescent Home building (later known as
St Andrew's) and an area of land, being on a separate title, were
unaffected and remains fully operational in all aspects of Police
convalescence, view their website by visiting it via our Contact/Links page.
The Northern Police Convalescent & Treatment Centre as it is now known,
is a Registered Charity (number 220956) and is funded almost entirely by
donations from serving officers and members of the public.
Deus vult
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