Castle Vaults
CASTLE VAULTS, MUSEUM SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126665
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Vaults
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE VAULTS, MUSEUM SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1126665
- Date first listed:
- 10-Feb-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Vaults
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE VAULTS, MUSEUM SQUARE
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:
- CASTLE VAULTS, MUSEUM SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Cambridgeshire
- District:
- Fenland (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wisbech
- National Grid Reference:
- TF 46183 09579
Details
The following previous listing date shall be added.
Page 53 Item number 6/120 10.2.69
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WISBECH MUSEUM SQUARE TF 4609 (West Side) 6/120 Castle Vaults GV II
C17, brick tunnel vaults with long central east-west passage covering an area approximately 70 x 90 feet which suggests they were built specifically for the C17 mansion. The well and some earlier wall materials may have mediaeval origins. Entrance to the vaults faces east and was built by Joseph Medworth c.1816 for access to the well. G. Annis, A History of Wisbech Castle, 1977. (See also references for The Castle).
Listing NGR: TF4626209567
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 48318
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Walker, N, Craddock, T, The History of Wisbech and the Fens, (1849)
Gardiner, F J, History of Wisbech and Neighbourhood, (1898)
Annis, G, A History of Wisbech Castle, (1977)
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 286
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects 1600-1840, (1954), 390
Watson, W, An Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, (1827)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970), 502
Wisbech Society Annual Report in Wisbech Society Annual Report, (1960)
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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