Edward King House and Diocesan Offices and Attached Chapel
EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL, MINSTER YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388681
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Edward King House and Diocesan Offices and Attached Chapel
- Statutory Address:
- EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL, MINSTER YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388681
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Dec-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Edward King House and Diocesan Offices and Attached Chapel
- Statutory Address 1:
- EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL, 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:
- EDWARD KING HOUSE AND DIOCESAN OFFICES AND ATTACHED CHAPEL, 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 97752 71695
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/245 (South side (off))
08/10/53 Edward King House, Diocesan Offices
and attached Chapel
GV II*
Formerly known as: The remains of the Bishop's Palace MINSTER
YARD.
Diocesan retreat and conference centre, and diocesan offices.
1727, remodelled in Gothic Revival style 1866 by Ewan
Christian. Chapel 1898, by Bodley & Garner, in Decorated
style, above the service rooms of the adjoining Bishop's
Palace. Mid C20 addition to south. Dressed stone with ashlar
dressings and gabled and mansard slate roofs. 4 gable, 3 ridge
and 3 side wall stacks, one of them external.
EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, moulded cornice, first and second
floor bands, coved eaves, crenellated parapet to south-east.
3 storeys plus attics, 7 bays. L-plan.
Entrance front has to left a projecting porch with parapet and
stepped gable, and moulded four-centred arched door with crest
above. To its right, a gabled wing, 3 storeys, and to right
again, a tower, 4 stages, with taller south-western octagonal
turret and crenellated parapet. All have windows with mullions
and transoms.
South front has two sections, 4 bays, that to the left set
back, each with a canted bay window with parapet. Left range
has a central buttress, cross casements, and a mansard roof.
Right range has a corner buttress, external stack and
crenellated parapet. Both have 4 dormers.
Chapel has a low-pitched leaded roof with crenellated parapet,
coved eaves, and pointed arched windows with hoodmoulds.
South side has a central vestry with parapet, side wall stack,
and two 2-light windows.
West end has an entrance corridor, 2 bays, with parapet and to
right, an octagonal turret. Above, a C13 single lancet and a
central C19 2-light window.
East end has a C13 lancet with shafts, and above, a C19
3-light window.
INTERIOR of main range has fielded panelled stairwell with
early C18 cantilever dogleg stair, 3 flights, with decorated
string and turned balusters. Oval panelled plaster ceiling. On
the first floor, a restored panelled room with dentilled
cornice, full-height Ionic fireplace surround, and pedimented
doorcase altered to form a bookcase.
Interior of chapel has 2 transverse double chamfered arches
and painted ceiling. West end has a central blocked window
flanked by a doorway to left and a canted porch to right.
North side has 3 chamfered openings separated by buttresses
with figures in niches. South side has a corresponding doorway
to the vestry. Each side has to west a C13 pointed arched
blocked opening with shafts.
East end has C19 stained glass south and east windows and
panelled reredos. North side has 2 ogee aumbries.
Fittings include at the west end, a full width crested screen
with inscription.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 485).
Listing NGR: SK9775271695
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 486142
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 485
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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