Site Event/Activity record ECC756 - RCHME survey of The Minories, Colchester, 1922

Location

Location The Minories, High Street, Colchester
Grid reference TM 00016 25228 (point)
Map sheet TM02NW
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

RCHME (Swindon)

Date

1922

Map

Description

RCHME survey of house called the Minories. The house 'is of two storeys with attics, timber-framed and plastered; the roofs are tiled. The back wing is of early 16th century date as are the cellars under the main block, which itself was rebuilt and fronted with brick late in the 18th century. Inside the building the cellars of the front block have rubble walls with arched recesses and heavy ceiling beams. The cellars below the back wing have brick walls with arched recesses and a pavement of bricks set herring-bone wise. In the ground storey of this wing is an original doorway of moulded and V shaped battens with moulded frame and muntins. The staircase is of c1600 and has symmetrically turned balusters and square newels with incised ornament; there is also some late 16th century panelling. Condition-Good.' <1>

Sources/Archives (1)

  • <1> Monograph: Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England. 1922. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England): Essex, (North-East). Volume III. page 58.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • The Minories, 74 High Street, Colchester (Building)

Record last edited

Mar 12 2016 10:28AM

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