EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL

EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL, MINSTER YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1388681
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL
Statutory Address:: EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL, MINSTER YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1388681
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 20-Dec-1999
List Entry Name:: EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL
Statutory Address 1:: EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL, MINSTER YARD

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:: EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL, MINSTER YARD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: Lincoln (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 97752 71695

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SK9771NE MINSTER YARD 1941-1/9/245 (South side (off)) 08/10/53 Edward King House, Diocesan Offices and attached Chapel

GV II*

Formerly known as: The remains of the Bishop's Palace MINSTER YARD. Diocesan retreat and conference centre, and diocesan offices. 1727, remodelled in Gothic Revival style 1866 by Ewan Christian. Chapel 1898, by Bodley & Garner, in Decorated style, above the service rooms of the adjoining Bishop's Palace. Mid C20 addition to south. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and mansard slate roofs. 4 gable, 3 ridge and 3 side wall stacks, one of them external. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, moulded cornice, first and second floor bands, coved eaves, crenellated parapet to south-east. 3 storeys plus attics, 7 bays. L-plan. Entrance front has to left a projecting porch with parapet and stepped gable, and moulded four-centred arched door with crest above. To its right, a gabled wing, 3 storeys, and to right again, a tower, 4 stages, with taller south-western octagonal turret and crenellated parapet. All have windows with mullions and transoms. South front has two sections, 4 bays, that to the left set back, each with a canted bay window with parapet. Left range has a central buttress, cross casements, and a mansard roof. Right range has a corner buttress, external stack and crenellated parapet. Both have 4 dormers. Chapel has a low-pitched leaded roof with crenellated parapet, coved eaves, and pointed arched windows with hoodmoulds. South side has a central vestry with parapet, side wall stack, and two 2-light windows. West end has an entrance corridor, 2 bays, with parapet and to right, an octagonal turret. Above, a C13 single lancet and a central C19 2-light window. East end has a C13 lancet with shafts, and above, a C19 3-light window. INTERIOR of main range has fielded panelled stairwell with early C18 cantilever dogleg stair, 3 flights, with decorated string and turned balusters. Oval panelled plaster ceiling. On the first floor, a restored panelled room with dentilled cornice, full-height Ionic fireplace surround, and pedimented doorcase altered to form a bookcase. Interior of chapel has 2 transverse double chamfered arches

and painted ceiling. West end has a central blocked window flanked by a doorway to left and a canted porch to right. North side has 3 chamfered openings separated by buttresses with figures in niches. South side has a corresponding doorway to the vestry. Each side has to west a C13 pointed arched blocked opening with shafts. East end has C19 stained glass south and east windows and panelled reredos. North side has 2 ogee aumbries. Fittings include at the west end, a full width crested screen with inscription. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 485).

Listing NGR: SK9775271695

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Legacy System number:: 486142
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 485

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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.