VICARS COURT

VICARS COURT, 1, 2 AND 2A, MINSTER YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1388684
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: VICARS COURT
Statutory Address:: VICARS COURT, 1, 2 AND 2A, MINSTER YARD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1388684
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: VICARS COURT
Statutory Address 1:: VICARS COURT, 1, 2 AND 2A, 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:: VICARS COURT, 1, 2 AND 2A, 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 97873 71703

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NE MINSTER YARD 1941-1/9/240 (South side) 08/10/53 Vicars' Court, Nos.1, 2 and 2A

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Former lodgings of the Vicars Choral, now 3 houses. Mid and late C14, reroofed c1670, with C18, mid C19 and C20 alterations. Ashlar and dressed stone, with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. EXTERIOR: stepped, chamfered string course. 2 storeys plus attics. Single range in blocks of 4 and 6 bays, with a single bay addition, C19, at the south end. Fenestration mainly C19. Northern block, to left, has a near-central doorway, C14, with hoodmould and mask stops, flanked to left by a four-centred arched window also with hoodmould. Beyond, a small pointed arched casement. To right, 2 flat headed mullioned windows with hoodmoulds. Above, to left, 2 segmental pointed casements, and to right, 2 flat headed mullioned windows, all with hoodmoulds. Above again, 2 restored gabled dormers. Southern range has a central flat headed doorway with keystone, and above it, a shield. To its left, a glazing bar sash, and beyond, a plain sash. To right, a flat headed window with 3 pointed arched lights, and a moulded doorway, both C19, with hoodmoulds. Beyond again, a single gabled buttress. Above, 6 renewed glazing bar casements. Above again, a large gabled dormer to left, and 2 smaller dormers to right. Addition, C19, has two 2-light windows with flat heads, pointed arched lights and hoodmoulds. Above, a central canted wooden oriel window on a shaped bracket. Rear has 4 brick and stone external buttressed stacks, and a garderobe tower with late C19 hipped oversailing top stage. INTERIOR has several intact garderobes, mainly on the ground floor. At the north end, a ground floor medieval ceiling with transverse chamfered beams on double corbels. The lobby between 2A and 2 retains its stone side walls. Roofs renewed c1670. This building is a noteworthy early example of collegiate lodgings. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 489-491; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 40-62; Report and overall assessment of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular properties..... in Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).

Listing NGR: SK9787371703

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Legacy System number:: 486145
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Hewlings, R, Secular properties in Lincoln Minster Close, (1987)
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (2nd fascicule), (1987), 40-62
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 489-491

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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.