Building record MLI30622 - 31 and 32 St Peter's Street, formerly Sempringham Hall, Stamford

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31 and 32 St Peter's Street, formerly Sempringham Hall, Stamford

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PRN 30622 Sempringham Hall was merely a hall or house of studies in the quasi-university that had been growing up since 1266. Doubtless it was closed in 1334, if not earlier. A wall plaque reads, 'This is the site of Sempringham Hall. A school of the Gilbertines founded in the 13th century.' {1}{2}{3} It is the only hall to be substantiated on medieval evidence. It stood on the north side of St Peter’s Street (about numbers 31 and 32). There is no doubt that Sempringham owned property there, with the chapel of St Mary. The house came into the possession of Lord Burghley and remained in the Exeter estate until 1959. {4} Several religious houses had halls for their students at Stamford. These include Sempringham which was founded in 1292. {9} These halls for religious students appear to have had relatively little influence but in 1334 they were joined by a number of students from Oxford during a short-lived secession from the main university. {5} The house at nos. 31 and 32 may be of 15th century origin and is of timber framed and plastered construction. A photograph taken around 1900 shows it with a stone front wall which has now been entirely removed and replaced. The openings shown on this picture suggest that this is the building drawn by Stukeley as 'Sempringham Hall' in 1735. The house consists of a main range and two rear wings. The main range has a roof with clasped purlins and windbraces. One of the rear wings is also timber framed and probably 15th century although it has been curtailed at one end by a 17th century stone range. The other rear wing includes two reset 15th century stone doorways (see PRN 37630). In the yard is a lead pump of c. 1800. {5} 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} There are two reset 15th century arches (see PRN 37630) in a store shed behind the main building (which is now a garage). {7}

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  •  Index: SMR cards for Stamford. STAMFORD. TF 00 NW CD -.
  •  Index: Ordnance Survey. O.S. cards for Stamford. STAMFORD. TF 00 NW 48,1961, FC.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: D. Knowles and R.N. Hadcock. 1953. Medieval Religious Houses: England and Wales - First Edition. P199.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Hartley, J.S. and Rogers, A.. 1974. The Religious Foundations of Medieval Stamford. No 69, pp 78-80.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1977. An Inventory of Historical Monuments. The Town of Stamford. p xlii, no 412, p 155, plate 70.
  •  Index: Department of the Environment. 1974. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. 1/336.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: ROGERS, A.. 1970. The Medieval Buildings of Stamford. No 60, p 45.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). p 706.
  •  Bibliographic Reference: ROGERS, A.. 1965. The Making of Stamford. p 56.

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Grid reference Centred TF 0262 0702 (24m by 29m)
Civil Parish STAMFORD, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE

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