The Deanery and Vestries, Cathedral of St John the Evangelist

Long range of buildings, stone with stone slate roofs; mainly wooden mullion and transom windows. The N block is of 2 storeys plus attic with large flat-roofed 8-light dormer (Caroe's) on ridge. Chimney at L angle. Four mullion and transom windows on first floor; on ground floor a doorway, 2 windows, a further doorway and 4-light window. Four-stage tower with parapet and 2 stepped buttresses; single window to each stage, 5-light on ground floor, 3-light window to first floor; 2-light windows above. To S of tower a 3- and 2-storey block with roof hipped to R. Left section of 3 storeys with 4 mullion and transom windows on top floor, 3 windows on other floors; doorway with shouldered arch. At S end, parlour block of 2 storeys with 2 windows to each floor. South return wall with shallow chimney breast and single window to each floor. The E elevation is more complex. From N, vestry range has 8 Gothic windows set at eaves (mainly Caroe's). On ground floor, to R, Gothic doorway and 4 small square-headed windows, then two 3-light mullion and transom windows. The tower has 2 windows to upper stage above a fine C14 window of 3 cusped lights. Below this, 2 mullion and transom windows, and a blocked doorway. To L of tower is a stone gable with single window, and 2 windows to each floor below the gable. On ground floor a broad C20 extension masks medieval doorway. At S end of block, attic window (with hipped roof) set across eaves and mullioned windows to first and ground floors.

Vestry (former stables) has high early C17 6-bay ceiling on re-used stone corbels. Remains of stalls of C17 stable with semi-elliptical arches with pendants and 2 wooden columns. First floor retains 9 roof trusses of early C17. Room at S end has early C17 chamfered stone fireplace. Deanery retains late C13/early C14 doorway and medieval staircase lobby; C16 staircase chamber. South room has early C18 bolection-moulded fireplace. Surviving medieval stair doorways. In first floor room of tower is medieval stone fireplace with inscription "SE(?)MB" obscured by C18 cornice. Re-set medieval corbels. Second floor of Deanery has fine re-used medieval stone fireplace. Tudor fireplace on first floor of Deanery. Four-bay roof of Deanery has arched collar-beam trusses of mid-C16 date. C18 and C19 detailing in some rooms. The interior was sensitively converted by W D Caroe in the late 1920s, and retains fine late Arts & Crafts doors and fittings from this period.