Building record 10656 - Seventeenth Century Houses on Site of Cathedral Kitchen, Abbey Street

This monument refers to four cottages built on the site of the former monastic kitchen (CHER 10640/9), in the seventeenth century, of which two cottages survive (see listed building records DCH6726, DCH6725). Bishop Bridgeman, who in 1623 condemned the prebendaries houses as ‘base, little, noisome and unfit for habitation’, initiated improvements. In 1626 on the site of the monastic kitchen he built four houses, reserved for the cathedral conducts, they were to be maintained by the dean and the chapter (1, 2, 6).

<1> Bennett. J.H.E., 1948, The Old Bishop's Palace, Chester, Bennett J H E 1948 37/69-106 (Article in Journal). SCH5773.

<2> Ordnance Survey, 1870-1982, Ordnance Survey Archaeological Record Card, SJ46NW34/1964 (Index). SCH2487.

<3> Harris, B.E., 1979, Bartholomew City Guides - Chester, /67 (Book). SCH394.

<4> Morris, Rupert H (Rev.), 1894, Chester in the Plantagenet & Tudor Reigns, /167 (Book). SCH946.

<5> Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Revised List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, City of Chester Intra Mural 1998/ 20 (Unpublished Report). SCH4570.

<6> Lewis C.P & Thacker A.T. (eds), 2005, Victoria County History - A History of the County of Chester: Volume Vii, The City of Chester - The City of Chester, Culture, Buildings, Institutions (Book). SCH6522.

<7> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 470017, 470016 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.