page_title: Turner Home, Liverpool
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Turner Home, Liverpool / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: English: Marble statue of Charles Turner &amp; his son inspecting a piece of cloth, by Hamo Thornycroft, 1885.
context_page_description: The Turner Home is in Dingle Lane, Toxteth, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Founded for the care of sick and disadvantaged men, it continues to function as a registered residential and nursing home for men. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
context_section_description: The home is constructed in red ashlar sandstone with a tiled roof.  Its architectural style is Gothic Revival.  It has a very irregular plan, and is mainly in two storeys with attics.  It is entered by a timber gabled porch, to the right of which is a bay containing a clock dated 1883.  Further to the right is a five-bay chapel.  This has a five-light east window containing Perpendicular tracery, and three-light windows along the sides.  To the left of the entrance porch, and set back from it, is a round turret with a conical roof. The window in the main part of the building are framed in stone, with mullions and transoms.  The doorways have pointed archways, and the chimneys are tall and clustered together.  In the entrance hall is a life-size marble statue, commissioned by Anne Turner, of her late husband and son, seated and inspecting a piece of cloth.  It was carved by Hamo Thornycroft in 1885.  The chapel has an open timber roof, a gallery housing the organ, and an aisle with an arcade supported on octagonal columns.  Behind the altar is a carved alabaster reredos.  The stained glass in the window above is by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.  Flanking the windows are boards with the Ten Commandments, the Creed and the Lord's Prayer.
caption: Statue of Charles Turner and son
exif: {"Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "350", "Image YResolution": "350", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2016:10:22 18:33:26", "Image ExifOffset": "164", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "302", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "6496", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3306", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3322"}