Vicars Court
VICARS COURT, 1, 2 AND 2A, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
GV I
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486145
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 489-491
Hewlings, R, Secular properties in Lincoln Minster Close, (1987)
Jones, , Major, , Varley, , The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln (2nd fascicule), (1987), 40-62
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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