The Dark Cloister

The Dark Cloister, The College

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1331687
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1950
List Entry Name:: The Dark Cloister
Statutory Address:: The Dark Cloister, The College

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1331687
Date first listed:: 23-Sep-1950
Date of most recent amendment:: 19-Jun-1972
List Entry Name:: The Dark Cloister
Statutory Address 1:: The Dark Cloister, 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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: The Dark Cloister, 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 54129 80195

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 22/03/2019

TL 5479 2/97

THE COLLEGE The Dark Cloister (Formerly listed as part of Residences incorporating remains of Infirmary including Chapel).

25.9.50. GV I A mid C13 vaulted passage originally connecting the Dormitory with the Infirmary, with a storey above which probably contained a school. All that now remains is the south wall of the vaulted passage and a short length of the upper storey with a window jamb at the east end. There are five deeply recessed pointed arches with moulded corbels for the springing of the vault on the north side. The west bay has a C13 doorway and the east bay has a later doorway. The centre three bays, on the south side, have C13 arcaded windows (blocked) set within a flat arch, with a quatrefoil window in the tympanum. Scheduled Monument.

The Dark Cloister, Powcher's Hall, the Painted Chamber (Walsingham House), the Chapel of the infirmary (Deanery), the Black Hostelry and Cellarers Chamber and Cellarers House (Boarding House of King's School) form a group. See also general group description under the Cathedral of The Holy Trinity.

Listing NGR: TL5412980195

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 48707
Legacy System:: LBS

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