Bastion to North East Angle and Attached Walls of Garden of Former Episcopal Palace
BASTION TO NORTH EAST ANGLE AND ATTACHED WALLS OF GARDEN OF FORMER EPISCOPAL PALACE, THE CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194878
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Bastion to North East Angle and Attached Walls of Garden of Former Episcopal Palace
- Statutory Address:
- BASTION TO NORTH EAST ANGLE AND ATTACHED WALLS OF GARDEN OF FORMER EPISCOPAL PALACE, THE CLOSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1194878
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1970
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Jun-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Bastion to North East Angle and Attached Walls of Garden of Former Episcopal Palace
- Statutory Address 1:
- BASTION TO NORTH EAST ANGLE AND ATTACHED WALLS OF GARDEN OF FORMER EPISCOPAL PALACE, THE CLOSE
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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.
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:
- BASTION TO NORTH EAST ANGLE AND ATTACHED WALLS OF GARDEN OF FORMER EPISCOPAL PALACE, THE CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Lichfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lichfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 11557 09918
Details
LICHFIELD
SK1109NE THE CLOSE 1094-1/5/216 (North side) 06/03/70 Bastion to NE angle and attached walls of garden of former Episcopal Palace (Formerly Listed as: THE CLOSE Bastion in the garden of the former Episcopal Palace)
GV II*
Truncated bastion and garden walls partly built on foundations of medieval close defences. Probably early C14 with later alterations and late C17 and C18 garden walls. Dressed stone and brick. Octagonal tower has rubble base and brick re-facing with stone quoins and raking brick buttresses; C18 or C19 parapet with some stone coping. Most detail obscured by ivy, but one stone-dressed window visible to south east; entrance to west has shouldered lintel and battened door. INTERIOR recorded as having stone dogleg stair and chamber with garderobe, 3 high windows and probably late medieval vault. Garden wall extends south along line of defences, and the rear garden wall extends west, with dry moat to north and east; rear wall has stone facing and raking buttresses to north, stone base to south; the east end has been altered for conservatory, now demolished. Wall to west marks boundary between the gardens of the Deanery and the Palace, with a deviation east about halfway along its length; part of this wall may be late C17. An important remaining part of the medieval defences of the close. (Drury P: The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral: 1987-; Victoria History of the County of Stafford: Greenslade M W: Lichfield: Oxford: 1990-: P.60-1).
Listing NGR: SK1155709918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 382793
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Drury, P, The Capitular Estate of Dean and Chapter of Lichfield Cathedral, (1987)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1990), 60-1
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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