Blue plaque № 10220

Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, United Kingdom

Vicars' Court and The Residence In 1379 a College was built for the Vicars Choral around a quadrangle where earlier there had been a large Roman villa. The Vicars Choral were men who deputised for canons at services in the Minster. Around 1690 the medieval collegiate dining hall was replaced by a ho

use for the Canon-in-Residence, William Mompesson, previously Rector of Eyam at the time of the 1665/6 plague. Between 1779 and 1785 the houses of the Vicars Choral and The Residence were rebuilt. Tod

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