Cathedral Cloister W Range County Durham, England
Listed Building Data
Cathedral Cloister W 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shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.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
- 1121389
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 6 May 1952
- Name
- CATHEDRAL CLOISTER WEST RANGE
- Location
- CATHEDRAL CLOISTER WEST RANGE, PALACE GREEN
- District
- County Durham
- Grid Reference
- NZ 27295 42106
- Easting
- 427294.5250
- Northing
- 542106.0286
Description
West range of cathedral cloister; comprising dormitory and undercroft; now part of library, with vestries, treasury and restaurant beneath. C12 dormitory door and part of cloister wall; c.1400 rebuilding; 1849-53 conversion to library. Circa 1400 work carried out by John Middleton, then by Peter Dryng, with Ellis Harpour as roof carpenter, for Bishop Skirlaw.
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE PALACE GREEN NZ 2742 SW (South side, off)
14/368 Cathedral cloister 6/5/52 west range
GV I
West range of cathedral cloister; comprising dormitory and undercroft; now part of library, with vestries, treasury and restaurant beneath. C12 dormitory door and part of cloister wall; c.1400 rebuilding; 1849-53 conversion to library. Circa 1400 work carried out by John Middleton, then by Peter Dryng, with Ellis Harpour as roof carpenter, for Bishop Skirlaw. 1849 conversion by P.C. Hardwick for Dean and Chapter library. Restoration of undercroft in C19 by Salvin, and in C20 by George Pace then Ian Curry. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof not visible. Basement and one high storey; 12 bays. Round arch of 3 orders, the inner 2 on shafts with cushion-capitals and the outer, now altered, with impost blocks, and varied C12 mouldings; deeply- moulded 2-centred arch to undercroft; further arched and square-headed vestry doorways. At south end a wide 2-centred moulded arch of 3 orders to passage through undercroft. Cloister: 9 arches with intersecting C18 tracery, on dwarf walls with low rounded coping. Gabled buttresses; roll-moulded parapet. Above the cloister are 15 paired cusped square-headed lights for carrels, under 6 tall 2-light windows with 2-centred arched and Perpendicular tracery under dripmoulds; battlemented parapet.
Interior: rib-vaulted undercroft of 12 bays. Round columns with moulded capitals and plinths. Dormitory has massive arched tie beams on wall posts and stone corbels; struts to principals; cusped ridge beam.
Source: W. Page V.C.H. 1928 reprint, 1968 p. 130.
Listing NGR: NZ2729842116
