Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 10/04/2012

ST 7747 NE 10/202
5363
22.7.49

VICARAGE STREET
(North side)
The Old Vicarage

(Formerly listed as St John's Vicarage)

GV
II*

Apparently built 1744 for the Rev Lionel Seaman. Later extensions and alterations.
2 storeys attic and basement. Ashlar front. 1 + 3 + 1 bays, centre in slight break
with quoins. Plinth. Ground floor cill band. Cornice. Parapet with moulded
coping. Glazing bar sash windows in moulded architraves, keystone to 1st floor
centre and ground floor outer windows, Gibbs surrounds to ground floor windows flanking
porch. Porch added in C19, box porch with Ionic columns to archway and pulvinated
frieze. In gable is a tablet depicting Christ the Shepherd. Modern ½-glazed door.
Hipped stone tile roof in 2 ranges. Stone chimneys with moulded capping.
Rear 4 windows, mostly with glazing bars, moulded architraves to ground floor windows
which are dropped below cill band. Basement windows have rusticated surrounds.
Angled bay to ground floor and basement for chapel. 3 hipped dormers.
Interior: Black cornerstones to Hall paving, mid C18 fireplace in hall. Original
stairs unusually sited: 3 balusters per tread, heavy handrail and ramped dado.
Ground floor room to west at back is panelled with dentil cornice and fretted dado,
marble cheeks to 'Chinese Chippendale' fireplace (see also frieze and mirror).
An 1820s sketch shows the Vicarage as 3 bays with set back wings, ground floor with
segmental relieving arches to windows flanking porch - its present appearance there-
fore must be a later remodelling.

Listing NGR: ST7780847871

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552984

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)