Cathedral Cloister East Range
CATHEDRAL CLOISTER EAST RANGE, PALACE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1121388
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral Cloister East Range
- Statutory Address:
- CATHEDRAL CLOISTER EAST RANGE, PALACE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1121388
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Cathedral Cloister East Range
- Statutory Address 1:
- CATHEDRAL CLOISTER EAST RANGE, PALACE GREEN
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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 EAST RANGE, PALACE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27353 42107
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN NZ 2742 SW (South side, off)
14/366 Cathedral cloister 6/5/52 east range
GV I
East range of cathedral cloister, comprising slype, chapter house and prison. Buildings begun C11; continued and altered C12 and C13; C15 room above slype; Chapter House mostly rebuilt 1895-6 by C. Hodgson Fowler, in memory of Bishop Lightfoot. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible.
Chapter House entrance: tall round chevron-moulded arch flanked by lower 2-light openings, now glazed, with cushion-moulded capitals on shafts. Tall chevron- moulded arch on similar shafts further north is entrance to slype, now used as vestry; half-glazed doors dated 1903 on handle-plate. Cloister has 11 buttressed bays with 3-light C18 openings with intersecting tracery; dwarf walls have low- curved coping; roll-moulded parapet.
Interior: Chapter House has medieval wall arcades, some parts renewed; first bay is early rubble; renewed rib vaults on renewed caryatid corbels, with 3 original caryatids placed in non-functional positions; east apse. Bishop's throne in apse has arm-rests and back from earlier stone throne. Prison to south has small round-headed window in east wall of first chamber, now a sacristy and a triangular-headed window, altered when the Chapter House was built; a second smaller room at the east end of the southern part is also a sacristy; to the west of this is the prison, with blocked cusped food-hatch. Slype has 5-light window, barrel-vault on wall arcades similar to those of Chapter House and chevron-moulded inner arch on shafts. Low-pitched C15 roof to upper room.
Listing NGR: NZ2734642109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110421
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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