Chad Varah House (Former Lincoln Theological College, Attached Chapel, Water Tower and House)
CHAD VARAH HOUSE (FORMER LINCOLN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, ATTACHED CHAPEL, WATER TOWER AND HOUSE), DRURY LANE, LN1 3BP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388510
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Chad Varah House (Former Lincoln Theological College, Attached Chapel, Water Tower and House)
- Statutory Address:
- CHAD VARAH HOUSE (FORMER LINCOLN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, ATTACHED CHAPEL, WATER TOWER AND HOUSE), DRURY LANE, LN1 3BP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388510
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Chad Varah House (Former Lincoln Theological College, Attached Chapel, Water Tower and House)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHAD VARAH HOUSE (FORMER LINCOLN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, ATTACHED CHAPEL, WATER TOWER AND HOUSE), DRURY LANE, LN1 3BP
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:
- CHAD VARAH HOUSE (FORMER LINCOLN THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE, ATTACHED CHAPEL, WATER TOWER AND HOUSE), DRURY LANE, LN1 3BP
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 97570 71730
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/01/2016
SK9771NE
1941-1/9/87
LINCOLN
DRURY LANE (South side)
Chad Varah House (Former Lincoln Theological College, attached chapel, water tower and house)
02/10/69
GV
II
Also known as: Bishop's Hostel DRURY LANE.
Former County Hospital, now a theological college. 1776-77, by John Carr of York and William Lumby. Chapel 1906, by Temple Moore. Attached house and water tower, late C19. Rear addition 1962. Brick with hipped slate roofs, with two ridge and two side wall stacks.
EXTERIOR: dentilled cornice, flat arched openings. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes. Symmetrical main block, three storeys, 11 bays, has a projecting pedimented centre and flanking wings. Central pedimented Doric portico with half-glazed double doors and fanlight. On either side, four sashes, one of those to the right altered to a C20 glazed door. Above, ranges of nine sashes on each floor, those to the second floor smaller, some of them blocked. In each wing, a central Venetian window on the lower floors, and above them, triple sashes.
Attached house, to left, two storeys, L-plan, has two sashes on each floor, and a lean-to glazed porch in the return angle. Octagonal water tower, four stages, at the north-east corner, has round headed windows, machicolated eaves, and is topped with an octagonal spire.
Chapel, Decorated style, brick with stone dressings and plain tile roof, has a stepped chamfered plinth, sill band, and coped east gable with cross. Windows have hoodmoulds. Nave and chancel in one. Three bays. East end has central and angle buttresses and a five-light window. South side passage has to left a segment headed three-light window and to right, a chamfered doorway and three smaller two-light windows. Above, three windows with a three-light centre flanked by single lancets. West end has a round window with a doorway above it. North side has a buttressed lean-to vestry.
INTERIOR: main block has at the east end a five-flight cantilevered open well stair with stick balusters and ramped scrolled handrail. C18 internal glazed porch and six-panel doors. At the west end, a framed newel stair with winders. Chapel has a sill band and pointed tunnel vaulted wooden roof. West end has a gallery with segment headed doors below. North side has a blind arcade, three bays. South side has piscina and sedilia to east. Fittings include panelled oak stalls and benches and stained glass by H Victor Milner.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989: 510).
Listing NGR: SK9757071730
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485955
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 510
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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