Dukes Theatre
DUKES THEATRE, MOOR LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211613
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Dukes Theatre
- Statutory Address:
- DUKES THEATRE, MOOR LANE
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- 2000-11-26
- Reference:
- IOE01/02653/29
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1211613
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Mar-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Dukes Theatre
- Statutory Address 1:
- DUKES THEATRE, MOOR LANE
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:
- DUKES THEATRE, MOOR LANE
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 47942 61748
Details
LANCASTER
SD4761NE MOOR LANE 1685-1/7/186 (North side) 22/12/53 Dukes Theatre (Formerly Listed as: MOOR LANE (North side) Church of St Anne)
GV II
Parish church, now theatre. 1796. Converted in 1971. Sandstone ashlar with slate roof. South wall, facing Moor Lane, of 5 bays with raised quoins and a plinth and with a doorway to the left and with an upper row of low round-headed windows which originally lit the gallery. The windows have plain reveals and projecting sills and have recent joinery with glazing bars. The 4th bay now contains a doorway. The main doorway has a cornice hood on plain console brackets. The west wall is of 5 bays and has similar windows but is treated more elaborately. The ground-floor windows in the 2nd and 4th bays have cornices on console brackets, and the stonework of the central bay projects forwards slightly and has a triangular pediment above gallery window level. To each side at a higher level is a small window with plain reveals. At the apex of the gable is a small pedimented bellcote with a round-arched opening. To the east and north are C20 extensions.
Listing NGR: SD4794261748
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383219
- 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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