Description

GLOUCESTER

SO8318NW CATHEDRAL PRECINCTS
844-1/8/59 Wardle House
23/01/52

GV II

A prebendal house for a residentiary canon of Gloucester
Cathedral, now public school house, part of the King's School
(qv); 1677-1686, C18 alterations, remodelled and extended
c1800. Rendered brick and rubble, slate roof, brick stacks.
PLAN: double-depth block, built against the east side of the
remains of the medieval wall which formerly separated the
monks' cemetery from the lay cemetery within the precinct of
St Peter's Abbey; entrance front on the north side with a
large semicircular bow to left, garden front on the east side.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and attic; entrance front of four bays
and to left a large projecting bow, on the ground floor in
third bay from right a late C19, gabled, timber-framed
entrance porch with side-lights, within porch the entrance
doorway, of c1800, framed by fluted pilasters with leaf
capitals and entablature.
INTERIOR: central hall has stone paving in diaper pattern with
slate inserts at the corners of the slabs; excellent mid C17
open well staircase with pulvinated, closed string, square
newels surmounted by carved urns and with pierced drops,
twisted balusters and handgrip handrail; on both the first and
the second floor landings are three c1800 suspended arches
with drops and carved spandrels; room to left refitted in
early C19, C19 slate chimney piece; other rooms with C18
panelling arched.
HISTORY: in C19 the home of Mary Anne Lewis (Evans), later, as
the wife of Benjamin Disraeli, Countess of Beaconsfield.
(Welander D: The History, Art and Architecture of Gloucester
Cathedral: Stroud, Gloucestershire: 1991-; Eward S: No Fine
but a Glass of Wine, Cathedral Life at Gloucester: Salisbury:
1985-: 299, 312; BOE: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The Vale and
the Forest of Dean: London: 1976-: 226).

Listing NGR: SO8313118727

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26561521

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Recommended Books

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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