Description

LICHFIELD

SK1109NE BREADMARKET STREET
1094-1/5/63 (South West side)
05/02/52 No.5
St Mary's Chambers

GV II*

Formerly known as: No.5 Priests' Hall BREADMARKET STREET.
House, at one time the residence of guild priests, now
offices. c1600 or earlier, with alterations c1760. Brick with
timber-framed rear wing; tile roof with brick end stack.
Georgian style.
3 storeys with basement; 2-window range. Top modillioned
cornice. Central elliptical-headed entrance has architrave and
radial-bar fanlight over half-glazed door; iron handrails to
steps; entrance to left end has C19 stop-chamfered lintel over
4-flush-panel door.
Ground floor has late C19 canted oriel to left with top
entablature and small-paned upper lights; shuttered basement
access below; bowed oriel to right has moulded pilaster
strips, fluted frieze to entablature and small-paned glazing
with opening pane; paired bowed glazed doors to basement
below. 1st floor has Venetian windows with tripartite sashes
with glazing bars in simple architraves; 2nd floor has windows
with 6-pane sashes in simple architraves, inserted window to
left end is similar. Rear has gabled timber-framed wing with
square framing and longer brick wing.
INTERIOR: exposed timber-framing and chamfered beams; open
well staircase with simply turned balusters, square newels
with ball finials and moulded handrails, said to be
cherrywood; basement has flat joists and early brickwork.
The home of the priests of the Guild of St Mary and St John
until its dissolution. The birthplace of Elias Ashmole,
1617-1692, founder of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
(Wilkinson R: Look at Lichfield: Lichfield: 1976-).

Listing NGR: SK1173809524

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17557779

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