May 2013:
LINCOLN Deanery.
A very large number of members of the group took the opportunity to visit the Deanery (former Chancery) at 11 Minster Yard Lincoln for the May visit and in particular the fourteenth century chapel . Our guide was Carol Bennett , Education Officer at the Cathedral.
The Deanery (formerly Chancery). Left the street frontage and right the rear of the building.
Left: Our excellent guide Carol Bennett in full flow! Right the chapel altar.
Parts of the Chancery, built by Chancellor Beck, date from circa 1300 with additions in the fifteenth century. It has the oldest brick frontage in Lincoln. It was not uncommon for great houses to have a private chapel during the 14th and 15th centuries and that at the former Chancery was certainly there when Katherine Swynford rented the building in the fourteenth century.
The Chapel was built in the fourteenth century over what was then the Buttery and Pantry. Going up the staircase to the Chapel on the left at the top are two small cusp lights or squints built into the wall between two uprights to allow an uninterrupted view of the Chapel from a chamber across the stair well.
On the right is a full carved wooden screen with a door into the Chapel. Few features remain from the Chapel as it would have looked when Katherine Swynford lived in the Chancery, other than a restored piscina and an aumbry in the south wall.
Thanks must go to John Ketteringham for arranging the visit to this private chapel, which is not accessible to the general public.
Note : I am grateful to Sylvia Curry and Max Kitchen for the text; also to Max Kitchen and Michael Pritchard for the photographs. Many thanks to Fiona Flemming for general organisation. JRK
The Chapel was built in the fourteenth century over what was then the Buttery and Pantry. Going up the staircase to the Chapel on the left at the top are two small cusp lights or squints built into the wall between two uprights to allow an uninterrupted view of the Chapel from a chamber across the stair well.
On the right is a full carved wooden screen with a door into the Chapel. Few features remain from the Chapel as it would have looked when Katherine Swynford lived in the Chancery, other than a restored piscina and an aumbry in the south wall.
Thanks must go to John Ketteringham for arranging the visit to this private chapel, which is not accessible to the general public.
Note : I am grateful to Sylvia Curry and Max Kitchen for the text; also to Max Kitchen and Michael Pritchard for the photographs. Many thanks to Fiona Flemming for general organisation. JRK
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