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Monument details
| HER Number: | TR 15 NW 1161 |
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| Type of record: | Listed Building |
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| Name: | BLACK PRINCES CHANTRY |
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Summary
Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1833 to 1866
| Grid Reference: | TR 1498 5814 |
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| Map Sheet: | TR15NW |
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| Parish: | CANTERBURY, CANTERBURY, KENT |
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Monument Types
- SITE (Post Medieval - 1833 AD to 1866 AD)
| Protected Status: | Listed Building (II) 1259747: BLACK PRINCES CHANTRY |
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Full description
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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 944 KING STREET (North West Side)
No 22 (Black Princes Chantry) TR 1458 SE 2/524
II GV
2. Mid C19. 2 storeys stuccoed. Ground floor rusticated. Slate roof. 2 sashes with verticals only. Left side doorcase has console brackets above. Simple recessed doorcase.
Listing NGR: TR1498358143
The Canterbury UAD states that Edward the Black Prince in 1363 gave a house as a residence for his chaplains and successors, who served his chantry chapel in the Cathedral Crypt. Little detail is known but the house stood on the corner of Knotts Lane and King Street. The residence in the parish of St. Alphege is no more but is still called 'The Black Prince's Chantry'.
Hasted wote that this house stood near or in the place of the Templar's habitation in St. Alphege Parish and there was then, over a stone porch, the arms of the Black Prince.
In a survey by the King's Commissioners of Edward VI, 1548-9, the message is listed as appertaining to the the late chantry, called Prince Edward's Chantry, within the Cathedral Church. The house had a yearly value of 20s., the out goings being 4d., so there remained a clear 19s. 6d.
English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.
Somner, W., 1640, The Antiquities of Canterbury (Monograph). SKE30127.
Hasted, E, 1799, The History of the Ancient and Metropolitical City of Canterbury. Vol 1. Canterbury (Article in monograph). SKE29735.
Smith, G., 1883, Cronological History of Canterbury Cathedral (Monograph). SKE30473.
Sources and further reading
| Cross-ref.
| Source description | | --- | Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest. |
| --- | Article in monograph: Hasted, E. 1799. The History of the Ancient and Metropolitical City of Canterbury. Vol 1. Canterbury. |
| --- | Monograph: Somner, W.. 1640. The Antiquities of Canterbury. |
| --- | Monograph: Smith, G.. 1883. Cronological History of Canterbury Cathedral. |
