Cathedral Cloister E Range County Durham, England

Listed Building Data

Cathedral Cloister E Range has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.

List Entry ID
1121388
Listing Type
listed building
Grade
I
Date Listed
6 May 1952
Name
CATHEDRAL CLOISTER EAST RANGE
Location
CATHEDRAL CLOISTER EAST RANGE, PALACE GREEN
District
County Durham
Grid Reference
NZ 27353 42107
Easting
427353.0750
Northing
542107.1614

Listed Building Description

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DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN NZ 2742 SW (South side, off)

14/366 Cathedral cloister 6/5/52 east range

GV I

East range of cathedral cloister, comprising slype, chapter house and prison. Buildings begun C11; continued and altered C12 and C13; C15 room above slype; Chapter House mostly rebuilt 1895-6 by C. Hodgson Fowler, in memory of Bishop Lightfoot. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. Roof not visible.

Chapter House entrance: tall round chevron-moulded arch flanked by lower 2-light openings, now glazed, with cushion-moulded capitals on shafts. Tall chevron- moulded arch on similar shafts further north is entrance to slype, now used as vestry; half-glazed doors dated 1903 on handle-plate. Cloister has 11 buttressed bays with 3-light C18 openings with intersecting tracery; dwarf walls have low- curved coping; roll-moulded parapet.

Interior: Chapter House has medieval wall arcades, some parts renewed; first bay is early rubble; renewed rib vaults on renewed caryatid corbels, with 3 original caryatids placed in non-functional positions; east apse. Bishop's throne in apse has arm-rests and back from earlier stone throne. Prison to south has small round-headed window in east wall of first chamber, now a sacristy and a triangular-headed window, altered when the Chapter House was built; a second smaller room at the east end of the southern part is also a sacristy; to the west of this is the prison, with blocked cusped food-hatch. Slype has 5-light window, barrel-vault on wall arcades similar to those of Chapter House and chevron-moulded inner arch on shafts. Low-pitched C15 roof to upper room.

Listing NGR: NZ2734642109