Chorister School
CHORISTER SCHOOL, 9, THE COLLEGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1159555
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Chorister School
- Statutory Address:
- CHORISTER SCHOOL, 9, THE COLLEGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1159555
- Date first listed:
- 06-May-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Chorister School
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHORISTER SCHOOL, 9, THE COLLEGE
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.
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:
- CHORISTER SCHOOL, 9, THE COLLEGE
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 27265 41963
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE THE COLLEGE NZ 2741 NW (South side)
16/86 No. 9 (Chorister School) 6/5/52 (formerly listed as St. Mary's College)
GV I
Prebendal house, now school. Medieval with C17 and C18 alterations. Sandstone rubble with ashlar plinth and dressings, rendered in Parker's Roman cement; roof of graduated Lakeland slate. Gothic revival style. L-plan.
Main house: 3 storeys, 5 windows and end projecting towers. Central Tudor-arched open porch has roll-moulded parapet with raised centre panel containing arms of Bishop Lord Crewe. Panelled double door and Gothic overlight. Ground-floor Tudor-arched and upper square-headed 2-light windows have Gothic tracery and glazing bars in raised, chamfered surrounds under dripmoulds. Lancets in towers also have raised stone surrounds; slits at top of towers. Parapets, battlemented between towers. Hipped roof has end chimneys. At rear an arcade of 3 large round arches, with rounded open triangular lights in spandrels, on round columns, and cusped light at west end, supporting a terrace. Projecting right wing 2 storeys, 4 bays in similar style to main front; then a renewed stone bay under brick gable has a 2-storey, one-bay gabled projection with buttresses, a blocked elliptical brick arch, and large crow-steps with chamfered coping.
Interior: rear stone-vaulted basement has chamfered round arches. C17 stair has closed string, richly-carved newels and brackets, vase-and-twist balusters supporting panelled handrail with high grip. Entrance hall has bolection-moulded plaster panelling; stucco cornices in hall and some rooms and many 2-panelled doors. Part of City wall probably incorporated at right.
Listing NGR: NZ2731142149
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110134
- 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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