The Corpus Christi Hall

The Corpus Christi Hall, Earl Street

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1086371
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: The Corpus Christi Hall
Statutory Address:: The Corpus Christi Hall, Earl Street

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1086371
Date first listed:: 30-Jul-1951
List Entry Name:: The Corpus Christi Hall
Statutory Address 1:: The Corpus Christi Hall, Earl Street

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:: The Corpus Christi Hall, Earl Street

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 75830 55804

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 February 2021 to clarify and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 7555 NE 1/100

EARL STREET (south side) The Corpus Christi Hall

30.7.51.

II* The Guild or Fraternity of Corpus Christi was founded in Maidstone about 1422. It had the use of a chantry chapel in the north chancel of All Saints Church and consisted of two wardens, four chaplains and a number of churchmen, gentry and townmen. The building consisted originally of a Hall, Refectory, Chapel and Cloisters. After the Suppression of the Fraternity, Protector Somerset gave the building to the town of Maidstone for a Grammar School, founded in 1549 and it remained in use as such until 1871. Only the Refectory remains. An L-shaped C15 building. Two storey and attics stone rubble. Tiled roof. The main front faces east. Two hipped dormers. Two pointed windows containing cinquefoil-headed lights with a quatrefoil over, stone mullions and transom. The outer windows are modern. The gable end facing Earl Street is timbered with red brick infilling. The west wing is of stone rubble on the ground floor and imitation timbering above. Two square-headed windows contains three cinquefoil-headed lights with dripstones over.

The interior has two crown posts with chamfered tie beams. Screens passage with five stone arches. Also traces of a wooden partition which originally divided the hall into two. Formerly a Scheduled Monument.

Listing NGR: TQ7583055804

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Legacy System number:: 173295
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.