List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHORISTER SCHOOL
List Entry Number: 1159555
Location
CHORISTER SCHOOL, 9, THE COLLEGE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: County Durham
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: City of Durham
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 06-May-1952
Date of most recent amendment: 10-Mar-1988
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 110134
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE THE COLLEGE
NZ 2741 NW (South side)
16/86 No. 9 (Chorister School)
6/5/52 (formerly listed as
St. Mary's College)
GV I
Prebendal house, now school. Medieval with C17 and C18 alterations. Sandstone
rubble with ashlar plinth and dressings, rendered in Parker's Roman cement;
roof of graduated Lakeland slate. Gothic revival style. L-plan.
Main house: 3 storeys, 5 windows and end projecting towers. Central Tudor-arched
open porch has roll-moulded parapet with raised centre panel containing arms of
Bishop Lord Crewe. Panelled double door and Gothic overlight. Ground-floor
Tudor-arched and upper square-headed 2-light windows have Gothic tracery and
glazing bars in raised, chamfered surrounds under dripmoulds. Lancets in towers
also have raised stone surrounds; slits at top of towers. Parapets, battlemented
between towers. Hipped roof has end chimneys. At rear an arcade of 3 large round
arches, with rounded open triangular lights in spandrels, on round columns, and
cusped light at west end, supporting a terrace. Projecting right wing 2 storeys,
4 bays in similar style to main front; then a renewed stone bay under brick gable
has a 2-storey, one-bay gabled projection with buttresses, a blocked elliptical
brick arch, and large crow-steps with chamfered coping.
Interior: rear stone-vaulted basement has chamfered round arches. C17 stair has
closed string, richly-carved newels and brackets, vase-and-twist balusters
supporting panelled handrail with high grip. Entrance hall has bolection-moulded
plaster panelling; stucco cornices in hall and some rooms and many 2-panelled
doors. Part of City wall probably incorporated at right.
Listing NGR: NZ2731142149
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Map
National Grid Reference: NZ 27265 41963
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