Salvation Army Citadel
SALVATION ARMY CITADEL, 47 AND 48, SADDLER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121360
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Salvation Army Citadel
- Statutory Address:
- SALVATION ARMY CITADEL, 47 AND 48, SADDLER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1121360
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Salvation Army Citadel
- Statutory Address 1:
- SALVATION ARMY CITADEL, 47 AND 48, SADDLER STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SALVATION ARMY CITADEL, 47 AND 48, SADDLER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- City of Durham
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 27470 42368
Details
DURHAM AND FRAMWELLGATE SADDLER STREET NZ 2742 SW (East side)
14/397 Nos. 47 and 48 (Salvation Army Citadel) 19.10.62 (formerly listed as Nos. 48 and 49)
GV II*
Assembly rooms and shops, incorporating part of North Gate of Castle; now Salvation Army meeting hall and university department. Medieval gate. Circa 1800 assembly rooms with ground floor alterations. Ground floor rendered; first floor English bond brick with painted ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys. Circa 1900 shop at left has recessed central door; upper glazing bars in shop windows. Central c.1800 shop has partly-glazed door and 2-pane overlight at left, and shop window with 3 rows of 6 panes at right, under patterned shallow segmental lunette. Assembly rooms entrance at right has many-panelled door in Greek Doric doorcase with columns and entablature, flanking narrow sashes with projecting stone sills. First floor has 3 large sash windows above shops, with wedge stone lintels, projecting stone sills, and glazing bars; wide blank right bay has painted SALVATION ARMY in aedicule. Low-pitched roof has end brick chimney.
Interior: wide open-string stair has swept wreath and curtail, round handrail on stick balusters. Reported to contain fragments of North Gate barbican in basement. Graded for medieval parts.
Listing NGR: NZ2747642386
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110452
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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