Vicars Court and Priests Vicars Houses
VICARS COURT AND PRIESTS VICARS HOUSES, 3 AND 3A, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- 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
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 AND PRIESTS VICARS HOUSES, 3 AND 3A, 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 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
GV I
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486146
- 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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