Minster Abbey

Heritage listing

Details TR 3064-3164 5/6 MINSTER BEDLAM COURT LANE (West side) Minster Abbey 6.2.58 GV I Monastic grange, now abbey, C11 and C12, altered c.1413. Rubble, flint and dressed stone details. Plain tiled roof. Originally built around three sides of a courtyard, a chapel on the south side, domestic and office ranges on west and north sides. Entrance front: the north front of the north wing. C12 in origin. Two storeys on irregular plinth with string course and boxed eaves to hipped roof with stone stack at end left, and brick stacks to left and to right. Left end bay projects, with two tier C15 cinquefoiled window. The left end of the main range was probably rebuilt at the same time, a C15 window interrupting the string course at this point. Two C12 windows on first floor, and one blocked to right. Three C17 segmental headed three light mullioned and transomed wooden casements on first floor, and irregular fenestration on ground floor of C20 trecusped two-light window and C17 segmental headed mullioned and transomed windows. C15 door to centre right, three panelled door in four centred arched doorway, chamfered with moulded surround, with arms of Thomas Hunden in spandrels, Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury, 1405-1420. The door interrupts earlier pilaster strips. Derelict and partly ruinous C19 extension and wall to left, of flint. Double projecting block with large cart doors to right, with round headed window over, and boarded door and sidelight to left with pointed arched heads. Wall about 8 feet high extending about 20 yards. Left return: C12 round-arched shafted window in upper wall above C19 extension. Right return; the rear of the late C11 west range, the main feature a central gabled three storey projection. Originally 2 storeyed and battlemented. Seven C20 gabled d

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.