Cathedral Cloister South Range

The south range of the cathedral cloister in Durham, originally built in the 11th century, includes the frater and undercroft, with a kitchen located on the north side of the College. It now serves as a library and offices. The east end of the south range, which was originally the first dorter, prior's lodging, and chapel with undercrofts, is now the Deanery on the north side of the College. The frater was rebuilt for Dean Sudbury around 1684 and restored in 1858 by Salvin. The building features coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and has a basement and one high storey, comprising 14 bays. There is a passage entrance at the east end leading to the Deanery and College.

The entrance to the frater from 1684 features a doorcase with Tuscan pilasters on lozenge-panelled plinths, flanking a bolection-moulded keyed arch on impost blocks. The entablature has a cornice that breaks forward over tapered pilasters. To the east of this entrance, there is a blocked two-centred arch that led to the original frater steps. The cloister has 11 two-centred arches with 18th-century intersecting tracery on dwarf walls with rounded coping, gabled buttresses, and a roll-moulded parapet. The library windows, added in 1858, are two-light with four-centred heads, and there is a battlemented parapet. A 19th-century wall monument commemorates the Sharp family, and there is an early 18th-century cartouche with a skull and other ornament dedicated to Richard Graham, who was born on August 30 and died on December 22, 1689, with a Latin inscription. The south elevation features small undercroft windows with monolith round heads.

Inside, the undercroft entrance is located in the west wall of a barrel-vaulted passage at the east end of the range. The first east bay and three west bays also have barrel vaults, as does the passage, while five intermediate bays feature three-aisled groined vaults resting on short square columns with abaci. To the west of the undercroft are four small chambers, one referred to as a cellar and the others as the covey, which includes a serving hatch with a cusped head. The library above contains 17th-century bookcases and presses, a Romanesque wall painting behind one case, and a loft at the west end with bolection-moulded panelling and stair balustrades of late 17th-century style.