Details
LINCOLN
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
