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BOUNDARY WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH OF NOS 13 AND 14 INCLUDING RAILINGS MONASTIC PRECINCT WALL ABUTTING NO 12A

BOUNDARY WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH OF NOS 13 AND 14 INCLUDING RAILINGS, COLLEGE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063828
Date first listed:: 04-Apr-1971
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH OF NOS 13 AND 14 INCLUDING RAILINGS MONASTIC PRECINCT WALL ABUTTING NO 12A
Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH OF NOS 13 AND 14 INCLUDING RAILINGS, COLLEGE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1063828
Date first listed:: 04-Apr-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Jun-2001
List Entry Name:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH OF NOS 13 AND 14 INCLUDING RAILINGS MONASTIC PRECINCT WALL ABUTTING NO 12A
Statutory Address 1:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH OF NOS 13 AND 14 INCLUDING RAILINGS, COLLEGE GREEN
Statutory Address 2:: MONASTIC PRECINCT WALL ABUTTING NO 12A, COLLEGE GREEN

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BOUNDARY WALLS TO WEST AND SOUTH OF NOS 13 AND 14 INCLUDING RAILINGS, COLLEGE GREEN
Statutory Address:: MONASTIC PRECINCT WALL ABUTTING NO 12A, COLLEGE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Worcester (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SO 84927 54437

Details

WORCESTER

SO85SW COLLEGE GREEN 620-1/3/695 Boundary walls to west 05/04/71 and south of Nos. 13 & 14 including railings (Formerly Listed as: COLLEGE GREEN (West side) Monastic precinct wall abutting No 12A)

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Boundary wall to gardens of Nos. 13 & 14 College Green including its continuation (as railings/gates/wall) westwards to its intersection with the Monastery Wall adjacent to the river, and its continuation eastwards (as wall with railings over) towards the Green. Possibly re-using 'quarried' materials from C14 monastery but with later additions and alterations mainly from the C18 & C19. Sandstone in red, cream, and grey/green; red brick; wrought- and cast-iron. Boundary wall: overall length approx. 77 metres (45m. N/S, 32m. E/W); height varies from approx. 2.5 metres to 4.5 metres. All the western section of wall is brick over regular coursed masonry of rectangular, smooth-faced blocks; typically two to eight courses (0.6m.- 1.5m.) high. Thin oversailing coping of rectangular-section with cambered top-face in stone. Changes in wall height achieved by curved ramps, copings profiled to suit. Northern end of wall terminates in remains of Monastery Dormitory; to south, curved intersection between the two sections; wall to southern boundary is of similar construction of brick over stone. Pierced to left of centre by pedestrian opening with cambered arch over and vertically boarded door. Wall to right of door is predominantly brick with approx. 1m. length of stonework visible at ground-level. Stone coping and ramp detail as to west but also terminated by brick-on-edge and brick-on-flat coping. Railings and wall running from SW corner of wall to riverside wall on Kleve Walk (qv): railings extend for approx. 20 metres, with C19 brick return in short section of approx. 10 metres to No.12B(qv); approx. 1.4m. high; rectangular-section top, middle, and bottom rail and main posts; circular cross-section vertical railings alternate full- and half-height, arrow head finials, those to dog bars broken-off; gates to left and right in matching design to railings; cast-iron hinge and latch posts, octagonal with moulded cap and plinth, identified in casting as made by 'J & F Hall of Worcester.' To west of railings is approx. 20 metre length of wall mostly some 2.5 metres high of brick with approx. two courses of stone at foot, brick-on-edge coping; final 6 metres is all stone construction similar detail to main boundary wall, 1 metre high with half-round blue brick coping. Wall with railings over continuing to east of boundary wall: length approx. 14 metres, height from approx. 1.2 - 2.8 metres; regular coursed stone as per main boundary wall, cambered-top oping; wall terminated at east end by matching stone pillar; square in section with stopped chamfers to arrisses on chamfered-top plinth; moulded cap. Approx. 1.4 metre high railings set into wall coping, moulded top-rail, circular-section vertical railings with ornate arrow-head finials. HISTORICAL NOTE: Robert Willis Map from 1863 shows boundary wall to nos. 13 & 14 annotated as 'modern wall'. Railings to west of boundary wall are not shown on the Willis map or the First Edition O.S. Map of 1886. (Architectural Journal 20:83-133: Robert Willis: Architectural History of the Cathedral & Monastery of Worcester: 1863-: 254-318; Worcester Cathedral Publications: Philip Barker: A Short Architectural History of Worcester Cathedral: Worcester: 1994-).

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 488661
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Willis, R, Architectural History of the Cathedral and Monastery of Worcester, (1863), 254-318
'Architectural Journal' in Architectural Journal: Volume 20, (), 83-133
Barker, P, 'Worcester Cathedral Publications' in A Short Architectural History of Worcester Cathedral, (1994)

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.