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LINCOLN SK9771NE MINSTER YARD 1941-1/9/245 (South side (off)) 08/10/53 Edward King House, Diocesan Offices and attached Chapel GV II* Formerly known as: The remains of the Bishop's Palace MINSTER YARD. Diocesan retreat and conference centre, and diocesan offices. 1727, remodelled in Gothic Revival style 1866 by Ewan Christian. Chapel 1898, by Bodley & Garner, in Decorated style, above the service rooms of the adjoining Bishop's Palace. Mid C20 addition to south. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and gabled and mansard slate roofs. 4 gable, 3 ridge and 3 side wall stacks, one of them external. EXTERIOR: chamfered plinth, moulded cornice, first and second floor bands, coved eaves, crenellated parapet to south-east. 3 storeys plus attics, 7 bays. L-plan. Entrance front has to left a projecting porch with parapet and stepped gable, and moulded four-centred arched door with crest above. To its right, a gabled wing, 3 storeys, and to right again, a tower, 4 stages, with taller south-western octagonal turret and crenellated parapet. All have windows with mullions and transoms. South front has two sections, 4 bays, that to the left set back, each with a canted bay window with parapet. Left range has a central buttress, cross casements, and a mansard roof. Right range has a corner buttress, external stack and crenellated parapet. Both have 4 dormers. Chapel has a low-pitched leaded roof with crenellated parapet, coved eaves, and pointed arched windows with hoodmoulds. South side has a central vestry with parapet, side wall stack, and two 2-light windows. West end has an entrance corridor, 2 bays, with parapet and to right, an octagonal turret. Above, a C13 single lancet and a central C19 2-light window. East end has a C13 lancet with shafts, and above, a C19 3-light window. INTERIOR of main range has fielded panelled stairwell with early C18 cantilever dogleg stair, 3 flights, with decorated string and turned balusters. Oval panelled plaster ceiling. On the first floor, a restored panelled room with dentilled cornice, full-height Ionic fireplace surround, and pedimented doorcase altered to form a bookcase. Interior of chapel has 2 transverse double chamfered arches and painted ceiling. West end has a central blocked window flanked by a doorway to left and a canted porch to right. North side has 3 chamfered openings separated by buttresses with figures in niches. South side has a corresponding doorway to the vestry. Each side has to west a C13 pointed arched blocked opening with shafts. East end has C19 stained glass south and east windows and panelled reredos. North side has 2 ogee aumbries. Fittings include at the west end, a full width crested screen with inscription. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 485). Listing NGR: SK9775271695

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