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IoE Number:
48707
Location:
THE DARK CLOISTER, THE COLLEGE
ELY, EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
N/A
Date listed:
23 September 1950
Date of last amendment:
19 June 1972
Grade
I
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THE COLIEGE
1.
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The Dark Cloister
(Formerly listed as part of
Residences incorporating
remains of Infirmary includin
I Chapel).
TL 5479 2/97 25.9.50.
GV
2.
A mid C13 vaulted passage originally connecting the Dormitory with the
Infirmary, with a storey above which probably contained a school. All
that now remains is the south wall of the vaulted passage and a short length
of the upper storey with a window jamb at the east end. There are 5 deeply
recessed pointed arches with moulded corbels for the springing of the vault
on the north side. The West bay has a Cl3 doorway and the east bay has
a laer doorway. The centre 3 bays, on the south side, have C13 arcaded
windows (blocked) set within a flat arch, with a quatrefoil window in the
tympanum. AM.
The Dark Cloister, Powcher's Hall, the Painted Chamber (Walsingham House),
the Chapel of the infirmary (Deanery), the Black Hostelry and Cellarers
Chamber and Cellarers House (Boarding House of King's School) form a group.
See also general group description under the Cathedral of The Holy Trinity.