East Deanery

The East Deanery, located in South Church, was originally built as a prebendal college for the Church of St Andrew, later repurposed as farm buildings. Construction began shortly after 1293, following an order by Bishop Bek for houses for the canons. The building has undergone alterations in the 16th, 19th, and 20th centuries and was under restoration at the time of a 1991 survey.

The structure comprises three ranges arranged around a courtyard. The western range was being restored at the time of the survey. The northern range was rebuilt, incorporating an older northern wall, while the eastern range was derelict.

The western range, which is two storeys high and divided into four builds, presents an irregular eastern elevation. The first section, possibly post-medieval in origin, features an external stone staircase leading to a renewed first-floor door. A Tudor arched door is set within a chamfered stone surround, flanked by 16th-century stone mullion windows with label moulds and panelled spandrels to their segmental heads. A single stone corbel is positioned at first-floor level on the right end of this section. This section joins irregularly with the next, which has an irregular jamb and flat stone lintel to a door positioned to the left of centre. To the right is a door exhibiting run-out chamfers that likely originally had a shouldered head but has since been truncated. A slit window with irregular block jambs, likely a stair light, is found to the left on the lower part of the first floor, and a tall two-light mullion and transom window with trefoil heads under a label mould is positioned to the right on the first floor. A full-height buttress separates this section from the fourth, which has an elliptical head to a rebuilt door on the left and an external stone staircase that turns 90 degrees to a renewed door beneath a thin stone lintel. A small, blocked pointed-head door is situated within the support of the staircase. On the first floor, a window similar to the one in the previous section is present to the left, and a blocked lancet is situated to the left of the first-floor door.

Internally, the ground floor of the end sections is said to contain barrel vaults, while the central section has stop-chamfered beams. A stone spiral staircase between the central and right sections is believed to contain treads reused from medieval incised cross grave covers.