| The Dispensary | |
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.jpg) Old Dispensary, St James Square | |
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| General information | |
| Architectural style | Georgian |
| Town or city | Monmouth |
| Country | Wales |
| Coordinates | 51°48′47″N 2°42′38″W / 51.81301°N 2.7106°W |
| Completed | <1868 |
The Dispensary is a Georgian town house which is fairly typical of many town-centre houses in Monmouth, Wales, dating from the mid 18th century, but with early 19th-century additions. It stands in St James Square, opposite the Catalpa tree. The building was listed at Grade II on 27 June 1952.[1]
The architectural historian John Newman[2] calls this the "one substantial eighteenth century house" in St James Street, though it is surrounded by later attractive façades. A dispensary was established here in 1857. This became the Monmouth Hospital and Dispensary, with nine beds, in 1868, and closed in 1903. The dispensary is one of 24 buildings on the Monmouth Heritage Trail, marked by a ceramic blue plaque on the wall.
- ^ Old Dispensary, Listed Buildings, accessed January 2010
- ^ Newman, John (2000) The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire. ISBN 0-14-071053-1. University of Wales Press