St Mary's Chambers
ST MARY'S CHAMBERS, 5, BREADMARKET STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1292482
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Chambers
- Statutory Address:
- ST MARY'S CHAMBERS, 5, BREADMARKET STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1292482
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- St Mary's Chambers
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST MARY'S CHAMBERS, 5, BREADMARKET STREET
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:
- ST MARY'S CHAMBERS, 5, BREADMARKET STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 11738 09524
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NE BREADMARKET STREET 1094-1/5/63 (South West side) 05/02/52 No.5 St Mary's Chambers
GV II*
Formerly known as: No.5 Priests' Hall BREADMARKET STREET. House, at one time the residence of guild priests, now offices. c1600 or earlier, with alterations c1760. Brick with timber-framed rear wing; tile roof with brick end stack. Georgian style. 3 storeys with basement; 2-window range. Top modillioned cornice. Central elliptical-headed entrance has architrave and radial-bar fanlight over half-glazed door; iron handrails to steps; entrance to left end has C19 stop-chamfered lintel over 4-flush-panel door. Ground floor has late C19 canted oriel to left with top entablature and small-paned upper lights; shuttered basement access below; bowed oriel to right has moulded pilaster strips, fluted frieze to entablature and small-paned glazing with opening pane; paired bowed glazed doors to basement below. 1st floor has Venetian windows with tripartite sashes with glazing bars in simple architraves; 2nd floor has windows with 6-pane sashes in simple architraves, inserted window to left end is similar. Rear has gabled timber-framed wing with square framing and longer brick wing. INTERIOR: exposed timber-framing and chamfered beams; open well staircase with simply turned balusters, square newels with ball finials and moulded handrails, said to be cherrywood; basement has flat joists and early brickwork. The home of the priests of the Guild of St Mary and St John until its dissolution. The birthplace of Elias Ashmole, 1617-1692, founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. (Wilkinson R: Look at Lichfield: Lichfield: 1976-).
Listing NGR: SK1173809524
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382612
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Wilkinson, R, Look at Lichfield, (1976)
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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