Site Event/Activity record ECC870 - Survey of All Saints Court tenements, Colchester, 1922

Location

Location All Saints Court, Colchester
Grid reference Centred TL 9987 2516 (12m by 15m)
Map sheet TL92NE
Non Parish Area COLCHESTER, COLCHESTER, ESSEX

Technique(s)

Organisation

RCHME (Swindon)

Date

1922

Map

Description

RCHME survey of All Saints Court tenements, Colchester. A T-shaped block on the W side of the court was built late in the 16th century with the cross-wing at the North end; to the North of this is a cellar of about the same date. The North range of the courtyard is of the 16th or 17th century and the rest of the buildings of the 18th century. There are some 16th century windows with moulded mullions . Inside the building the cellar has rubble walls, a doorway with a two-centred head and a number of recesses; on the South side are three narrow bays with quadripartite vaulting and divided up by modern partitions. The cross-wing of the original building appears to have been originally of one storey and three bays long; it has richly moulded wall-plates, hollow-chamfered tie-beams and collars with curved braces forming two centred arches; the trusses have been partly cut away. The staircase is of late 17th century date with turned balusters and moulded hand-rail. The wing extending South has original moulded wall-plates and beams; in the West wall is a moulded corbel formerly supporting a curved brace.' <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 64.

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

  • All Saints Court, Culver Street East, Colchester (Building)

Record last edited

Feb 8 2016 2:50PM

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