Vicars' Court, Lincoln
Architecture
The buildings consists of four irregular two-storeyed ranges set around a spacious sloping turfed courtyard. The entrance range facing the cathedral with an entrance gateway is from 14th century and has the arms of Bishop Gravesend above the entrance arch. The northern block, on the left, has a near-central 14th century doorway, with a hood mould and mask stops, flanked to left by a four-centred arched window with another hood mould, and a small pointed arched casement window. The southern range has a central flat headed doorway with a keystone and a shield above it. To right are a flat headed window with a three pointed arched lights, and a moulded doorway with hood moulds which are 19th century. Beyond is a single gabled buttress. Above are a large gabled dormer windows to left with two smaller dormer windows to right. Above is a central canted wooden oriel window on a shaped bracket. At the back are four brick and stone external buttressed chimneystacks, and a garderobe tower. The interior has several intact garderobes, and at the north end there is a ground floor medieval ceiling with transverse chamfered beams on double corbels.
See also: Residences of other Vicars’ Choral
- Vicars' Close, Wells
- Vicars' Court, Lincoln
- College of Minor Canons, St Paul's London
- Exeter [1]
- Hereford [2]
- Bedern, York [3]
See also: Other Residences in Lincoln Cathedral Close and Minster Yard
References
- ^ ’’‘Jones (1987}, 40-65
- ^ Maddison1878), ‘’Vicars Choral of Lincoln’’ pg.8.
- ^ ‘‘Antram’’ (1989), 489-90
- ^ "Vicars Court, Lincoln, Lincolnshire".
Bibliography
- Antram N (revised), Pevsner N & Harris J, (1989), The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, Yale University Press.
- Jones S. (1987) The Survey of Ancient Houses in Lincoln Vol. 2. 40-62
- Padley J.S., (1851) Selections from the Ancient Monastic Ecclesiastical and Domestic edifices of Lincolnshire, Lincoln.[4]
- Stocker, D.A., (1999). The College of the Vicars Choral of York Minster at Bedern: architectural fragments, The Archaeology of York 10/4, CBA: York. ISBN 1902771028.
External links
- British Listed Buildings [5]