CATHEDRAL CLOISTER EAST RANGE - Durham - List Entry
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Description
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.... -
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