Cathedral Cloister Buildings
CATHEDRAL CLOISTER BUILDINGS, THE PRECINCT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1086461
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral Cloister Buildings
- Statutory Address:
- CATHEDRAL CLOISTER BUILDINGS, THE PRECINCT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1086461
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral Cloister Buildings
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHEDRAL CLOISTER BUILDINGS, THE PRECINCT
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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:
- CATHEDRAL CLOISTER BUILDINGS, THE PRECINCT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74257 68489
Details
TQ 7468 NW ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT
7/8 gateway to Precinct
(see College Yard)
TQ 7468 ROCHESTER THE PRECINCT
9/188 Cathedral Cloister
Buildings Formerly listed
as College Green)
24-10-50
GV I
Ruins of claustral buildings of the cathedral priory of Christ and the BVM (see ref 7 and 9/193; also the Cloister Gate, ref 9/189). Mostly C12, but with early C13 modifications; the cloister is unusual in that it adjoins the S parts of the E end of the cathedral (rather than the S nave aisle and main transept). Mainly ragstone. little survives above ground level of the S range except the Cloister Gate (ref 1/189). To the S, the site of the Refectory, with round-headed openings and (immediately being) a tiny 2-bay vaulted C13 Lavatorium entered through a pointed arch with a cusped inner order, decorated with dog-tooth; shafts keeled. (These remains and the associated walling which may incorporate Roman materials, lie beneath and partly underpin the C19 Garth and Cloister Houses, see rafts 9/191 and 9/192). to the E, intersecting blank arcading, doorway to former Dormitory middle third of C12, with Tournai marble shafts (a great rarity in England) and a weathered relief of the Sacrifice of Isaac. To the left tripartite entrance to the Chapter House with lancets above connected by blind niches. Chapter House rectangular on plan, intersecting wall arcading with some C15 alterations. the Chapter House is connected to the King's School (ref 9/190). for detailed description and evaluation see Newman, West Kent and the Weald, Buildings of England (2nd ed, 1980 reprint) pp 486-7)
Listing NGR: TQ7425768489
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173120
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 486-7
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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