Description

YORK

SE6052SE BEDERN
1112-1/14/25 (South West side)
24/06/83 Bedern Hall

GV II*

Common hall of the College of Vicars Choral of York Minster;
now meeting hall and guildhall. Mid C14; restored and
extension added 1984.
MATERIALS: one wall timber-framed; coursed limestone
incorporating re-used moulded stone, on chamfered plinth;
restored in orange-pink brick in English garden-wall bond with
dressings of tooled stone; boxed timber eaves to steeply
pitched pantile roof.
EXTERIOR: 1-storey 4-bay fronts. Entrance in extension at
eastern end of south-west front through C20 door on strap
hinges in renewed chamfered doorway with 2-centred head.
Similar door in north- east front. Windows on both fronts are
double chamfered with 2-centred heads, some retaining original
fabric, now filled with C20 square lattice glazing. Original
tracery survives in one window on north-east front, of 2
cusped and lobed lights beneath traceried head and with
hollow-chamfered mullion and transom.
INTERIOR: renewed doorways are of 2 orders with 2-centred
heads recessed beneath segmental rere-arches. Fragments of
hollow chamfered surrounds survive to some windows. Wall to
service end of hall contains 2 blocked chamfered pointed
doorways, one original, one reconstructed in brick, beneath
exposed timber-framing. Roof of scissor trusses carried on
moulded wall plate; 3 trusses have arch braces rising from 2
original, 4 renewed corbels. Stone-flagged floor.
(City of York: RCHME: The Central Area: HMSO: 1981-: 60).

Listing NGR: SE6052652108

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q4879075

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