Building record MLI33439 - The Old Rectory, Church Street, Market Deeping
Summary
The Old Rectory is said to have been the refectory, dormitory or infirmary of the old Priory in the 14th century.
Type and Period (3)
- HALL HOUSE (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1539 AD)
- PRIORY ? (Medieval - 1300 AD to 1539 AD)
- VICARAGE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1540 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status/Designation
Full Description
PRN 33439
Market Deeping Rectory has been altered and added to from the 15th century onwards, and repaired in 1957-58. It retains some 14th century work. The timber ceiling of the hall is in a good state of preservation. {1}{2}
An interesting and quite complicated building, basically early 14th century with much later alteration. Tradition has it that it was the refectory (or dormitory) of Market Deeping Priory, a cell of Thorney Abbey, but no such cell is recorded and this Priory is apocryphal. Of the 14th century work the open hall and its screens passage survive, the hall being floored and shortened. In the west gable of the hall block there is a pointed two-light windows and a re-cut 14th century window with three ogee- headed lights. The house is of rubble limestone with ashlar quoins and dressings. The north front is of four bays with a plinth and parapet and three stepped buttresses. There is an off-centre gabled porch, the inner doorway with continuous decorated mouldings. The door with its ironwork is original too. The tall window to the right, of two Caernarvon-arched lights, is perhaps of the early 16th century. There is a 19th century three-storey canted bay-window replacing a simpler wooden one to the ground floor only. To the left of all this are three bays of the additions made in the Gothick style in 1832 by Thomas Pilkington for the Revd W. Hildyard. Pilkington also regularized the garden front by giving it two projecting gabled wings, and, in the centre, a tall gable with the Hildyard arms and the date above, as well as a hall window to match the 16th century window on the north front. Three bays of the 15th century roof survive above the inserted floor with tie-beams alternating with small hammerbeams on little corbel figures. {3}
See the Ordnance Survey record card for the full extent of the confusion over the supposed priory, and for a reference to 1965 photographs of the building. The building is listed grade I and or 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. {4}
Sources/Archives (5)
- <1> SLI2628 Index: OS CARD INDEX. MARKET DEEPING. TF 11 SW:21,1964, DA.
- <2> SLI3160 Index: SMR FILE. MARKET DEEPING. TF 11 SW:AI -.
- <3> SLI1062 Bibliographic Reference: Nikolaus Pevsner and John Harris, with Nicholas Antram. 1989. Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (Second Edition). 2nd Rev Edn p553.
- <4> SLI8342 Index: Department of the Environment. 1987. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. (296.003); 12/114.
- <5> SLI12351 Report: South Kesteven District Council. 2005. Market Deeping Conservation Area. Church Street character area.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred TF 1372 1032 (26m by 35m) |
|---|---|
| Civil Parish | MARKET DEEPING, SOUTH KESTEVEN, LINCOLNSHIRE |
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Record last edited
Mar 21 2021 8:35PM
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