Minster Song School (Part)
MINSTER SONG SCHOOL (PART), 8 AND 9, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257259
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Minster Song School (Part)
- Statutory Address:
- MINSTER SONG SCHOOL (PART), 8 AND 9, MINSTER YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1257259
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jun-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Minster Song School (Part)
- Statutory Address 1:
- MINSTER SONG SCHOOL (PART), 8 AND 9, MINSTER YARD
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:
- MINSTER SONG SCHOOL (PART), 8 AND 9, MINSTER YARD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- York (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 60341 52103
Details
YORK
SE6052SW MINSTER YARD 1112-1/27/712 (South West side) 14/06/54 Nos.8 AND 9 Minster Song School (part)
GV II
Formerly known as: The Minster Chamber MINSTER YARD. Pair of houses, now part of school. 1837 with later alteration and extension. By JP Pritchett for the Dean and Chapter: staircase ironwork by the Walker Foundry. Limestone ashlar with extensions of orange-grey brick and slate roofs: ashlar octagonal stacks, tripled at right gable end, with moulded caps: brick stacks at rear. STYLE: Gothick. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and cellars; 7-bay front terminating in embattled octagonal turrets. Centre bay is gabled and flanked by 2-stage buttresses. Cellar openings in moulded and chamfered plinth. Centre left and right bays have doorways with 4-centred heads and plain board doors with overlights of paired cinquefoiled lights. All ground floor windows are square-headed with sloped sills, and of 3 cinquefoiled lights. First floor centre window is of two tiers of 3 cinquefoiled lights in traceried 2-centred head. Other first floor windows similar to those on ground floor, but of 2 lights. All openings are double hollow chamfered and have coved hoodmoulds with return stops. Coved string courses at first floor and eaves levels encircle turrets and return to left and right. Embattled parapet with moulded coping. Left and right returns: ground and first floor windows correspond with those on front. Right return has 3-light plain window to cellar. Attics have 2-centred window openings, with paired pointed lights in left return, single light beneath coved hood in right return. INTERIORS: staircase in No.8 has cast-iron balustrade of traceried panels: in No.9 balustrade of vine scrolls. Both houses retain 'Gothick'-style fireplaces, with castellated surrounds, tracery panelled jambs or quatrefoiled friezes. Several plaster cornices and ceilings survive, including entrance passage and hall in No.9. (City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 165).
Listing NGR: SE6034252104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 464089
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
An Inventory of the City of York V Central, (1981), 165
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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