Chad Varah House (Former Lincoln Theological College, Attached Chapel, Water Tower And House)

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LINCOLN DRURY LANE (South side) Chad Varah House (Former Lincoln Theological College, attached chapel, water tower and house)

02/10/69

GV II Also known as: Bishop's Hostel DRURY LANE.

Former County Hospital, now a theological college. 1776-77, by John Carr of York and William Lumby. Chapel 1906, by Temple Moore. Attached house and water tower, late C19. Rear addition 1962. Brick with hipped slate roofs, with two ridge and two side wall stacks.

EXTERIOR: dentilled cornice, flat arched openings. Windows are mainly glazing bar sashes. Symmetrical main block, three storeys, 11 bays, has a projecting pedimented centre and flanking wings. Central pedimented Doric portico with half-glazed double doors and fanlight. On either side, four sashes, one of those to the right altered to a C20 glazed door. Above, ranges of nine sashes on each floor, those to the second floor smaller, some of them blocked. In each wing, a central Venetian window on the lower floors, and above them, triple sashes.

Attached house, to left, two storeys, L-plan, has two sashes on each floor, and a lean-to glazed porch in the return angle. Octagonal water tower, four stages, at the north-east corner, has round headed windows, machicolated eaves, and is topped with an octagonal spire.

Chapel, Decorated style, brick with stone dressings and plain tile roof, has a stepped chamfered plinth, sill band, and coped east gable with cross. Windows have hoodmoulds. Nave and chancel in one. Three bays. East end has central and angle buttresses and a five-light window. South side passage has to left a segment headed three-light window and to right, a chamfered doorway and three smaller two-light windows. Above, three windows with a three-light centre flanked by single lancets. West end has a round window with a doorway above it. North side has a buttressed lean-to vestry.

INTERIOR: main block has at the east end a five-flight cantilevered open well stair with stick balusters and ramped scrolled handrail. C18 internal glazed porch and six-panel doors. At the west end, a framed newel stair with winders. Chapel has a sill band and pointed tunnel vaulted wooden roof. West end has a gallery with segment headed doors below. North side has a blind arcade, three bays. South side has piscina and sedilia to east. Fittings include panelled oak stalls and benches and stained glass by H Victor Milner.

(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989: 510).

Listing NGR: SK9757071730