Guest Quarters of the Monastery

Guest Quarters of the Monastery, The College

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1167322
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: Guest Quarters of the Monastery
Statutory Address:: Guest Quarters of the Monastery, The College

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1167322
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1950
List Entry Name:: Guest Quarters of the Monastery
Statutory Address 1:: Guest Quarters of the Monastery, The College

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:: Guest Quarters of the Monastery, 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 54018 80128

Details

THE COLLEGE Guest Quarters of the Monastery GV I The guest quarters of the monastery, now part of King's School, comprises two ranges of buildings extending south from the Queen's Hall (Headmaster's House) and backing on to The Gallery, two storeys and attics. The north range, of eight bays, is late Norman circa 1180 built of Carr stone rubble with Barnack stone dressings. Originally it was probably used as a granary. In the C14 it was considerably altered when it became the guest quarters and an upper storey was inserted (in the northern half). The front is divided by flat pilasters weathered on top and some with original gargoyles. The northern part has a trefoil arched corbel table on the west side. The ground storey lids a fine vaulted undercroft with ribs springing from a central row of octagonal pillars without capitals. On the west side the windows on the first storey are C14 trefoil headed lancers and the undercroft is lit by paired trefoil headed windows. A stone stringcourse runs above the undercroft windows. The east side has C19 and C20 windows and a good late Norman doorway with a semi-circular arch above a segmental arch and two orders of columns with waterleaf capitals. The south range was built in the C14, shortly after the north range was completed and is divided into five bays by buttresses with two offsets and weathered at the top. It is built of Carr stone rubble with Northamptonshire stone dressings, with a parapet, stringcourse and a plinth. The windows are single lights with double-chamfered reveals, cusped heads and hood moulds. The undercroft is brick vaulted. On the east side a C14 external covered staircase wing projects at the north end. Roofs tiled, with original heavy trussed rafters carried over both ranges.

The Great Hall (Bishop's residence), the Queen's Hall (Headmaster's House), Wall to the garden of the Bishop's residence, Guest Quarters of the Monastery, Walls to the Guest Quarters of the Monastery and Ely Porta. Prior's House (Boarding House of the King's School) Prior Crauden's Chapel, Walls to the garden of the Prior's House, Ely Porta, Barn and Storehouse of the Monastery and wall to the Barn and Storehouse form a group with Bishop's Palace, Walls to the Bishop's Palace, and Nos 2 to 8 (consec) and No 9 (stables to Bishop's Palace), The Gallery. See also general group description under the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity.

Listing NGR: TL5401880128

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 48698
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.