Fownes Hotel

Fownes Hotel and Restaurant is a hotel in Worcester, England, along the canalside. It is situated in an old Victorian glove factory. It has 63 rooms. The three-storey red brick building, with twenty-five bays, dates to 1882–4, when it was built by Yeates & Jones, 1882–4.

Type: Hotel
Description: hotel in Worcester, England
Address: 5 Clare Street, Worcester, WR1 2AP

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Worcester Cathedral and Tudor House Museum.

Worcester Cathedral

Church

Photo: SimonWiseman, CC0.

Worcester Cathedral, formally the Cathedral Church of Christ and Blessed Mary the Virgin, is a Church of England cathedral in Worcester, England. The cathedral is the seat of the bishop of Worcester and is the mother church of the diocese of Worcester; it is administered by its dean and chapter. Worcester Cathedral is situated 880 feet west of Fownes Hotel.

Tudor House Museum

Museum

Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Tudor House Museum is situated 460 feet northwest of Fownes Hotel.

Greyfriars

Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Greyfriars, Worcester is a Grade I listed building in Worcester, England. Its location near to a former friary of the Franciscan order of Greyfriars has in the past led to speculation that it was constructed as their guest house, but it is now believed to have been built as a house and brew-house c.1485 for Thomas Grene, brewer and High Bailiff of Worcester from 1493-1497. Greyfriars is situated 540 feet northwest of Fownes Hotel.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Worcester and Diglis.

Worcester

Photo: brianac37, CC BY 2.0.

Worcester is an historic English cathedral city on the river Severn. Worcester is the county town of Worcestershire.

Diglis

Suburb

Diglis is an inner-city area and suburb of Worcester in Worcestershire, England. It is located around half a mile south of the city centre on the banks of River Severn.

St John’s

Suburb

Photo: Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St John's is a western suburb of Worcester in Worcestershire, England, lying west of the city centre and the River Severn. St. John's is referred to locally as the "Village in the City", which is partly due to being an independent township, before joining the city in 1837.

Fownes Hotel

Categories: building, tourism, and accommodation
Location: Worcester District, Worcestershire, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

52.18942° or 52° 11′ 22″ north

Longitude

-2.21704° or 2° 13′ 1″ west

Elevation

82 feet (25 metres)

Open location code

9C4V5QQM+Q5

OpenStreetMap ID

way 460814634

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=hotel

GeoNames ID

6526454

Wikidata ID

Q24039211

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