Building record MLI10030 - Shodfriars Hall, Boston

Summary

A guildhall which was built in about 1400. Now shops, offices and entertainments hall.

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A doubly jetted timber-framed house, flanked by lanes on either side, and fronting on to South Street. The twin gables are late 19th century, with quite inappropriate timbering after an Elizabethan model. The timbers of the ground floor, first floor and half of the second are 15th century in date, however, and judging by the square quatrefoil ornament carved on the fine corner-posts, quite early in the century. Another early feature is the lack of close parallel 'stude'. Thompson gives an engraving showing its condition in about 1850, without the gables. Used as shops, offices and club-rooms. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5} The building was originally scheduled (as SAM 111). It was de-scheduled in 1989, though is still a listed building: A guildhall, now shops, offices and entertainments hall which was built in about 1400 and underwent alteration in the 17th century and was restored and extended by Sir George Gilbert Scott in 1873. It is a timber framed building with lath and plaster nogging and red brick and has plain tile roofs. For the full description and the legal address of this listed building please refer to the appropriate List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. {6} Shodfriars Hall was the subject of a programme of historic building recording, conducted in December 2013 to inform its future conservation. The substantial timber-framed structure forms the earliest part of the building, which is thought to date to the last quarter of the 14th century. It was originally known as the 'Old Flemish House', and is thought to have served as the guildhall or principal mansion for the Guild of Corpus Christi. The building underwent some alterations in the 17th century, and much more extensive alterations and extensions in the late 19th century, when the Boston Conservative Club funded its restoration. It was at this time that the building acquired its current name of Shodfriars Hall. The Club had commissioned George Gilbert Scott to redesign the building, so that it could be used as club rooms, shops, offices and a grand hall for theatrical performances and public meetings. Scott remodelled the medieval building, and added a new connected hall, designed in the European Gothic style, to the east. {7}

Sources/Archives (7)

  •  Index: Lincolnshire County Council. Sites and Monuments Record Card Index. TF 34 SW: D.
  •  Scheduling Record: HBMC. AM 7. SAM 111.
  •  Scheduling Record: ENGLISH HERITAGE. 1989. DESCHEDULING DOCUMENT. -.
  •  Photograph: PARISH FILE. BOSTON. P22/79.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Pishey Thompson. 1856. The Histories and Antiquities of Boston.
  •  Index: Department of the Environment. 1975. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
  •  Report: English Heritage. 2015. Shodfriars Hall, 2-4 South Street, Boston. -.

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Grid reference Centred TF 32858 43998 (41m by 14m) Surveyed
Civil Parish BOSTON, BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE

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Dec 18 2023 3:26PM

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