Monument record 11033/11 - Collegiate Church of St John the Baptist - Clergy Houses

All around the precinct wall of St John's were the clergy houses. The western side of the precinct of St John contained the dean's house (CHER 11033/11/2) and, further south, a palace which the bishops of Lichfield retained. Shown on a plan of 1589 (Harl Mss 2073) (1), and on a seventeenth century plan, as being opposite the precinct wall, roughly where St John's Cottage now stands.

The western side of the precinct of St John contained the dean's house (CHER 11033/11/2) and, further south, a palace which the bishops of Lichfield retained. The eastern side of the precinct of St John contained houses for the petty canons and vicars of the cathedral (CHER 11033/11/3), and the northern side of the precinct of St John contained houses for the petty canons and vicars of the cathedral (CHER 11033/11/4).

<1> Morris, Rupert H (Rev.), 1894, Chester in the Plantagenet & Tudor Reigns, /166 (Book). SCH946.

<2> 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.