Details
LINCOLN
SK9771NE MINSTER YARD
1941-1/9/239 (South side)
08/10/53 No.1A
Gatehouse and gateway tower to
Vicars' Court
GV I
Gatehouse, gateway tower and lodgings. Built 1363-1397 during
the incumbency of Bishop Buckingham to house the college of
Vicars Choral. Reroofed late C17. Restored late C19. Dressed
stone, with ashlar dressings and plain tile roof. Crenellated
octagonal side wall stack and single rendered gable stack.
EXTERIOR: chamfered and moulded plinth, chamfered string
course, moulded coped parapet to tower at west end. 2 storeys,
4 bays.
North front has to right a four-centred arched gateway with
multiple roll moulding, hoodmould and mask stops. To its left,
a blocked doorway and to left again, a late C19 casement.
Above, to the left, 2 restored segmental pointed windows with
hoodmoulds and fragments of tracery. Between them, a small
ogee headed light. To the right, 3 shields, and beyond, a
larger ogee headed light. South elevation has a string course.
To the left, a moulded segmental pointed arched gateway and
above it, a Tudor arched casement, both with hoodmoulds. Under
the entrance archway, a cusped lierne vault. To west, a single
lancet and a doorway, both C19, with chamfered ogee heads. To
east, a C19 pointed window and a C17 pointed arched doorway
with plank door.
South-west corner has a square tower, 3 stages, with small
loops. West end has 2 blocked pointed arched openings and the
remains of a former gable.
INTERIOR has a late C18 stone walled cellar with brick
segmental vault.
Ground floor has to south-east a garderobe with an ogee arched
door and on the south side, a 2 bay blind arcade with
chamfered arches and a central corbel. At the west end, a
former porter's lodge, with a small fireplace in the north
wall and remains of an aumbry in the east wall. At the south
end, a stone newel stair. On the first floor, at the
north-west corner, a small original fireplace, and at the east
end, another fireplace masked by a later surround. On the
south-west side, to west, a cusped ogee arched drain recess.
Renewed roof, probably late C17, with 5 main beams.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 489-491; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses
in Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 40-48; Report and overall
assessment of listable quality: Hewlings R: Secular
properties..... in Lincoln Minster Close: London: 1987-).
Listing NGR: SK9786671728
