King's Lodging (Including Abbot's Prison)

KING'S LODGING (INCLUDING ABBOT'S PRISON), PRECINCTS

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1161737
Date first listed:
07-Feb-1952
Statutory Address:
KING'S LODGING (INCLUDING ABBOT'S PRISON), PRECINCTS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1161737
Date first listed:
07-Feb-1952
Date of most recent amendment:
07-May-1973
Statutory Address 1:
KING'S LODGING (INCLUDING ABBOT'S PRISON), PRECINCTS

Location

Statutory Address:
KING'S LODGING (INCLUDING ABBOT'S PRISON), PRECINCTS

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
City of Peterborough (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TL 19251 98632

Details

1. PETERBOROUGH 1500 PRECINCTS King's Lodging (including Abbot's Prison) (Formerly listed as Abbot's Gate & ranges to East & West. TL 1998 NW 1/380 7.2.52. I GV 2. Originally Cl2, later alterations. Cathedral Square elevation of 2 storeys and basement in ashlar with a crenellated parapet. External chimney stack. Large transom and mullion window on ground floor. Round arched doorway down steps and round arched window. Galilee Court elevation in stone with Welsh slate roof. Left hand section of front elevation rebuilt in C19. Plinth. 1 C19 window and 2 windows divided by a buttress. Interior:- A late Cl2 room with short oiroula+ piers and slightly cF;amferod arches ant ribs is now used as a bookshop, being below ground level. To the West, but on ground level is a room with a C13 vault and beyond this a late Cl2 room of 2 bays, partly rebuilt. A small room near the Great Gate with a blocked C12 window is known as the Condemned cell. Through the jambs of the window runs fine bar-hole of the gate. VCH, Vol II. Nos 24 to 26 (consec), Bishop's Gate, and King's Lodging form a group, also King's Lodging forms a group with No 3 Bridge Street & No 41 Causeway.

Listing NGR: TL1925198632

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49676
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Sources

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Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1906)

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