COLLEGE OF VICARS CHORAL

COLLEGE OF VICARS CHORAL, CATHEDRAL CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1196809
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: COLLEGE OF VICARS CHORAL
Statutory Address:: COLLEGE OF VICARS CHORAL, CATHEDRAL CLOSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1196809
Date first listed:: 10-Jun-1952
List Entry Name:: COLLEGE OF VICARS CHORAL
Statutory Address 1:: COLLEGE OF VICARS CHORAL, CATHEDRAL CLOSE

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:: COLLEGE OF VICARS CHORAL, CATHEDRAL CLOSE

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District:: County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Hereford
National Grid Reference:: SO5105139694

Details

HEREFORD

SO5139NW CATHEDRAL CLOSE 683-1/7/112 (South side (off)) 10/06/52 College of Vicars Choral

GV I

College. c1473. Coursed sandstone rubble; Welsh slate roof; 7 stepped buttress stacks with ashlar chimneys (some restored C20). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic; 12-window range: mainly C18, 4/4 and 6/6 sashes, in moulded cases; 8 gable dormers with C20 casements, and triangular overlights. To right: projecting entrance bay, with C18 Gothic-glazed 9/6 sash, and parapet with gable, over pointed arch in hood mould, with quatrefoils to spandrels; fan vaulted, enriched ceiling. 4-centred arch and plank door. Quadrangle fronts have cloisters with unglazed 2-light mullions under 4-centred arches; various lights over; pilaster buttresses. Walls to cloisters of close studding, with leaded lights and casements, and various plank and panel doors in moulded architraves. INTERIOR: No.1 and 1A: C19 dogleg staircase with turned newels and stick balusters; C19 flight with stick balusters. 1st floor: C19, 4-panel doors with pointed heads; overlights; exposed timber-framing; panelled shutters; stone fireplace with pyramid stop chamfer and 4-centred arch, with tiled surround; each bay has stone fireplace. Ground floor: exposed C15 timber-framing; fireplace with massive stone lintel; C19 doors; polychrome tiled floor; stone fireplace with moulded 4-centred arch; C19 fireplace with wood surround; C19 dresser; wall cupboard. Cellar: stone-lined; cupboard with wine bins. College hall: coved ceiling with cornices; moulded panels and architraves; dado rail; panelled risers to bay window; stone fireplace; C19 wood fire surround with shouldered architrave; 6-panel door. Canon's Hall: cusped chevron windbraces; open trefoiled collared-truss; moulded plates; stone fireplace with chamfered 4-centred arch. No.6: C19 dogleg staircase with turned balusters and newels, to 1st floor; C20 flight with stick balusters to 2nd floor. 2nd floor: two 4-panel doors with architraves; plank door with moulded frame under 4-centred arch, in timber-framing; stop chamfered purlins; trefoil-cusped open-truss roof. 1st floor: late C19, 6-panel doors; moulded plate; stone fireplace with pyramid stop-chamfered 4-centred arch. (RCHME).

Listing NGR: SO5107139701

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Sources

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Inventory of Herefordshire I South West, (1931)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.