King's Lodging (Including Abbot's Prison)
KING'S LODGING (INCLUDING ABBOT'S PRISON), PRECINCTS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1161737
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- King's Lodging (Including Abbot's Prison)
- Statutory Address:
- KING'S LODGING (INCLUDING ABBOT'S PRISON), PRECINCTS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1161737
- Date first listed:
- 07-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-May-1973
- List Entry Name:
- King's Lodging (Including Abbot's Prison)
- Statutory Address 1:
- KING'S LODGING (INCLUDING ABBOT'S PRISON), PRECINCTS
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 49676
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ryland, W, Adkins, D, Sejeantson, R, The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, (1906)
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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