Bedern Hall

Bedern Hall is the common hall of the College of Vicars Choral of York Minster, now serving as a meeting hall and guildhall. It dates from the mid-14th century and underwent restoration with an extension added in 1984. The building features one wall that is timber-framed and coursed limestone that incorporates re-used moulded stone, all set on a chamfered plinth. The restoration includes orange-pink brick in English garden-wall bond with tooled stone dressings, and it has boxed timber eaves beneath a steeply pitched pantile roof.

The exterior consists of a single storey with four bays. The entrance is located in the extension at the eastern end of the south-west front, featuring a 20th-century door on strap hinges within a renewed chamfered doorway that has a two-centred head. A similar door is found on the north-east front. The windows on both fronts are double chamfered with two-centred heads, some of which retain original fabric but are now filled with 20th-century square lattice glazing. One window on the north-east front preserves original tracery, consisting of two cusped and lobed lights beneath a traceried head, with a hollow-chamfered mullion and transom.

Inside, the renewed doorways have two orders with two-centred heads set beneath segmental rere-arches. Fragments of hollow chamfered surrounds can still be seen on some windows. The wall at the service end of the hall contains two blocked chamfered pointed doorways, one original and one reconstructed in brick, beneath exposed timber-framing. The roof features scissor trusses supported by a moulded wall plate, with three trusses having arch braces that rise from two original and four renewed corbels. The floor is made of stone flags.