Almonry, Sacrists Hall, Gate and Goldsmiths Tower the Sacristy Gate and Goldsmith's Tower
ALMONRY, SACRISTS HALL, GATE AND GOLDSMITHS TOWER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1126504
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Almonry, Sacrists Hall, Gate and Goldsmiths Tower the Sacristy Gate and Goldsmith's Tower
- Statutory Address:
- ALMONRY, SACRISTS HALL, GATE AND GOLDSMITHS TOWER, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1126504
- Date first listed:
- 23-Sept-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Almonry, Sacrists Hall, Gate and Goldsmiths Tower the Sacristy Gate and Goldsmith's Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- ALMONRY, SACRISTS HALL, GATE AND GOLDSMITHS TOWER, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE SACRISTY GATE AND GOLDSMITH'S TOWER, THE COLLEGE
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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:
- ALMONRY, SACRISTS HALL, GATE AND GOLDSMITHS TOWER, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE SACRISTY GATE AND GOLDSMITH'S TOWER, THE COLLEGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- East Cambridgeshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ely
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 54197 80313
Details
THE COLLEGE 1. 1082 The Sacristy Gate and Goldsmithts Tower (Formerly listed. as Gate and Subsidiary buildings) TL 5480 1/90 23.9.50. I GV 2. The Sacristy is Part of a long range of buildings which back onto the High Street on the north side, including the Almonry and the wall to the Almonry. The Sacristy, Gate and Goldsmiths tower were erected by Alan of Walsingham soon after he became sacrist in 1322. They probably incorporated an older building, known as The Old Hall in the c14. the only part of Walsingham's building which survives is the north wall and buttresses built of Carr stone rubble with Barnack stone dressings. The remainder is mainly Cl9. 2 storeys and attics The 1st storey windows are paired with cusped arches end leaded lights and the ground storey has 3 light arched windows. The north front is divided by heavy buttresses with 2 offsets and the south front (C19) has a parapet with string course end is divided by buttresses. Roof tiled, with C19 stone shafted chimney stacks and gabled dormers The sacrists gateway was restored in the C19. It has flanking buttresses and rises to a crow-stepped gable on the north front and a castellated parapet on the south front. Above the archway on both fronts there is a 2-light arched window with tracery, The Goldsmith's Tower, which stands at the west end of the range, contained the Goldsmith's workshop (Alan of Walsingham was himself a goldsmith) and the sacrists chequer. It is a square tower, the upper part of which was rebuilt in the C19, with a high plain parapet and stringcourse, corner buttresses with 2 offsets and a 2-light pointed arched window with tracery. The ground storey has a segmental arched entrance way.
The Almonry, Wall to the gardens of the Almonry and Painted Chamber, the Sacristy Gate and Goldsmith's Tower form a group with all the listed buildings in High Street except No 2. See also general group description under the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.
Listing NGR: TL5419780313
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48694
- 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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