CATHEDRAL CLOISTER SOUTH RANGE - Durham - List Entry
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Description
South range of cathedral cloister, comprising frater and undercroft, with kitchen beyond on north side of the College (q.v.); now library and offices. East end of south range, originally first dorter, prior's lodging and chapel with undercrofts, is now the Deanery on the north side of the College (q.v.). C11 undercroft; frater rebuilt for Dean Sudbury c.1684; restored 1858 by Salvin. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; roof not visible. Basement and one high storey; 14 bays. Passage entrance at east end to Deanery and College. 1684 entrance to frater has doorcase of Tuscan pilasters, on lozenge-panelled plinths, flanking bolection-moulded keyed arch on impost blocks; entablature has cornice breaking forward over tapered pilasters. To east of this, blocked 2-centred arch to original frater steps. Cloister has 11 two-centred arches, with C18 intersecting tracery, on dwarf walls with rounded coping.... -
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