Sacrista Prebend
SACRISTA PREBEND, 4, WESTGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046118
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Sacrista Prebend
- Statutory Address:
- SACRISTA PREBEND, 4, WESTGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1046118
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Sacrista Prebend
- Statutory Address 1:
- SACRISTA PREBEND, 4, WESTGATE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SACRISTA PREBEND, 4, WESTGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 70016 53886
Details
SOUTHWELL
WESTGATE SK7053 1919-0/11/150 (North West side) 11/08/61 No.4 Sacrista Prebend
GV II
Former prebendal house, now the headmaster's house of the Minster School. Front range built between 1774 and 1798 for Nicholas Hutchinson, incorporating parts of an earlier house in the rear wings. Brick, with stucco front, stone dressings and slate roofs. Gothick style front. Front has plinth and coped gables. Rear has partial stone plinth and chamfered eaves. 5 gable and 2 ridge stacks. 2 storeys; 3 window range. Symmetrical front has 2 gabled wings each with transomed triple lancet, and between them, a double lancet, all with hood moulds. Central canted flat roofed porch with pierced balustrade and Tudor arched doorway flanked by single plain sashes in lancet openings. Beyond, single canted hipped bay windows with 5-light transomed lancets. Rear wing has, to north, 2 glazing bar sashes on each floor, the lower ones tripartite. Interior: entrance hall has dentilled cornice and Tudor arch into porch. Dogleg stair and landing with cut string, stick balusters and scrolled ramped handrail. Left front room has vine trail frieze, cornice with oak leaves, and shallow coved ceiling. Adam style wooden fireplace on south wall. Other front rooms have panelled doors, some of them in Gothick style. This building is one of the 9 remaining prebendal houses formerly attached to Southwell Minster. (Norman Summers: A Prospect of Southwell: London: 1974-: 94-96).
Listing NGR: SK7001653886
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 242455
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Summers, N, A Prospect of Southwell, (1974), 94-96
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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