Cooperative Store
COOPERATIVE STORE, 47-53, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210255
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cooperative Store
- Statutory Address:
- COOPERATIVE STORE, 47-53, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210255
- Date first listed:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Cooperative Store
- Statutory Address 1:
- COOPERATIVE STORE, 47-53, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- COOPERATIVE STORE, NEW 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:
- COOPERATIVE STORE, 47-53, CHURCH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- COOPERATIVE STORE, NEW STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Lancaster (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 47613 61807
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE CHURCH STREET 1685-1/7/76 (South side) Nos.47-53 (Odd) Cooperative Store
GV II
Cooperative store and hall, now shops. 1901, rebuilt as department store behind retained facade in early 1980s. By Austin and Paley. For the Lancaster and Skerton Equitable Industrial Cooperative Society Ltd. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Deep L-shaped plan, extending along Church Street and New Street and centred on a canted corner bay which contains the entrance. Free Northern Renaissance style. 2 storeys and many-gabled attic, with 8 bays of varying width to Church Street and 9 to New Street, articulated by strongly-projecting pilasters. The doorway bay in the canted corner is the most ornate of the whole composition: the doorway itself is round-headed and has a surround decorated with strapwork. Above, a tall semicircular oriel, dated 1901, with a 5-light square-headed mullioned and transomed window, topped by a strapwork cresting supporting a panel carved with a Lancashire rose. Behind and above this is a cross-window between a pair of Ionic pilasters whose entablature carries an ornate Ionic aedicule, which is flanked by scrolls and capped by a segmental pediment, beneath which is a cartouche containing the beehive symbol of the Lancaster Cooperative Society. The ground floor originally had windows but now has arcades, whose moulded segmental arches with alternately projecting voussoirs are carried on half-octagonal piers with banded rustication; above is a shallow panelled frieze. The sixth bay along New Street still contains the flat lintel of what was an entrance to the Cooperative Hall, which is recognisable by its wide 3-bay gable. The first-floor windows are arranged in pairs in each structural bay and separated by shallow pilasters. The 2 bays to the left of the corner and the first 4 bays along New Street have round-headed windows divided by a mullion and 2 transoms; to the left the windows are square-headed, while to the right they have round heads and no subdivisions. Above them is a deep frieze decorated with strapwork and a raised letter inscription naming the owner. The second floor has a series of striking gables in a picturesquely irregular composition, with cross windows under segmental pediments towards the corner bay and, towards the ends, taller wider mullioned and transomed windows under wide Flemish gables. The finest of several Cooperative shops, and other buildings in the town, which Austin and Paley designed around 1900 in a free Northern Renaissance idiom.
Listing NGR: SD4761361807
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383108
- 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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