Description

YORK

SE6052SW LORD MAYOR'S WALK
1112-1/13/570 (North East side)
24/06/83 University College of Ripon & York
St John: Drama Studio
(Formerly Listed as:
LORD MAYOR'S WALK
Former Chapel of St John's College)

GV II

Chapel, now drama studio. c1858; converted c1964. Coursed
rusticated stone on moulded and chamfered plinths, with
intermediate and diagonal buttresses; ashlar dressings;
steeply pitched slate roof with cast-iron rainwater goods.
STYLE: Gothic Revival.
PLAN: 5 bays with south transept and north and south doors.
EXTERIOR: east window is of 5 trefoiled lights with
curvilinear tracery in the head, beneath coved hoodmould.
North and south sides are buttressed between bays, interrupted
on south side by gabled transept. North and south doors are
board with foliated C-hinges in 2-centred arches of 3 moulded
orders: above are rounded triangular lights filled with
mouchettes. Blocked doorway in east return of transept. Nave
windows are of paired trefoil headed lights with traceried
2-centred heads. West window is of 3 trefoiled lights with
traceried 2-centred head and coved hoodmould on head stops;
glazed trefoil in rounded triangular surround in gable apex.
Moulded sillstring encircles building, rising over all
doorways to form moulded hood, stepped beneath west window.
Openings are chamfered and windows have relieving arches of
voussoirs.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SE6044852419

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26548791

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (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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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]