Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
4131
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
02/08/1988
Date of Amendment
02/08/1988
Name of Property
The Old Vicarage
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Bangor
Town
Locality
Easting
258140
Northing
372085
Street Side
Location
At the E end of the Cathedral with main elevation to Tan-y-Fynwent. Comprises former house and church hall.
Description
Broad Class
Domestic
Period
History
Built in 1815 and enlarged in early C20 with the addition of the hall at right angles. The latter is by Harold Hughes (diocesan architect) whose architectural office was in a nearby building.
Exterior
Pebbledash elevations and slate roofs. The 2-storey, late Georgian, house (now converted to offices) has an asymmetrical entrance front to Waterloo Street; narrow recessed bay flanked by projecting gabled bays, the left hand of which has a deeply recessed entrance to the return angle. Asymmetrically gabled extension at S end and 4-window rear facing the cathedral with splayed bay to ground floor. Various small pane sash windows throughout.
The single storey church hall is in the free Arts and Crafts style with tall lancet windows characteristic of H L North and P M Padmore with whom Hughes was well acquainted. Stepped windows to the gable ends, with containing arch to W, and crucifix above formed of applied diamond shaped pieces of slate. A larger but similar crucifix is at the left end of Tan-y-Fynwent elevation. Central gable with corbelled lateral chimney breast truncated at gable apex; flanked below by 2 windows and with a further window to the right, each in stepped recesses. Small pane sash windows throughout; grilled ventilators to basement. A rubble wall is attached, at left returning up Waterloo Street, with inset triangular stones - possibly pieces of medieval window tracery.
Interior
The hall has a 3-bay interior with segmental arched roof and simple trusses.
Reason for designation
Group value with St Deiniol’s Cathedral and the Gateway into the Bible Garden.
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