VICARS COURT AND PRIESTS VICARS HOUSES

VICARS COURT AND PRIESTS VICARS HOUSES, 3 AND 3A, MINSTER YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1388685
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: VICARS COURT AND PRIESTS VICARS HOUSES
Statutory Address:: VICARS COURT AND PRIESTS VICARS HOUSES, 3 AND 3A, MINSTER YARD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1388685
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: VICARS COURT AND PRIESTS VICARS HOUSES
Statutory Address 1:: VICARS COURT AND PRIESTS VICARS HOUSES, 3 AND 3A, MINSTER YARD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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Statutory Address:: VICARS COURT AND PRIESTS VICARS HOUSES, 3 AND 3A, MINSTER YARD

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County:: Lincolnshire
District:: Lincoln (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 97846 71675

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NE MINSTER YARD 1941-1/9/241 (South side) 08/10/53 Vicars' Court, Nos.3 and 3A, Priests' Vicars Houses

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Former priests' vicars lodgings, now 2 houses. Begun late C13 by Bishop Sutton and completed c1309. Altered C15. Reroofed and altered late C17, further altered late C17, C18 and C19. Dressed stone with pantile roof and 2 gable stacks. Chamfered string course and 7 corbels to north front. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 bays. North front has an off-centre wooden doorcase with overlight, late C18, and to its right, a simpler doorcase, late C20. Irregular fenestration, much restored, with two 2-light pointed arched windows on each floor, and an additional single lancet above. Rear elevation has double chamfered plinth and coped parapet. 2 square garderobe shafts, 3 storeys, with parapets and arched openings, now mostly blocked, in their bases. Between them, a buttress, 2 setoffs, flanked by single buttress stacks. At the east end, a buttress stack and another plain buttress. Fenestration includes 3 arched openings with hoodmoulds, reglazed C19, and to right, flat headed windows, C15, with 3 and 4 lights and hoodmoulds. Above, six 2-light pointed arched windows with hoodmoulds, mostly reglazed, 4 of them with tracery. Return angle to north, forming part of the west range, has to left a renewed 2-light pointed arched window and doorway with hoodmoulds, and to right, a blocked doorway, C14. Above, a restored 2-light pointed arched window, C14. To left, 2 pointed arched loops one above another, the upper one blocked. INTERIOR has a central stone spiral staircase with a round newel below and a chamfered newel above, with chamfered arched doorways. First floor has 2 window seats and fragments of C14 window glass. On the south side, 2 concealed original fireplaces. At the west end, a panelled room, c1670. Remains of original arch braced roof with faceted corbels. This building is the earliest known example of a range of lodgings served by a common stair, in the manner of a University college. (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: SK9784671675

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Legacy System number:: 486146
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.