BLACKBURN MUSEUM

BLACKBURN MUSEUM, MUSEUM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1223411
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1995
List Entry Name:: BLACKBURN MUSEUM
Statutory Address:: BLACKBURN MUSEUM, MUSEUM STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1223411
Date first listed:: 01-Aug-1995
List Entry Name:: BLACKBURN MUSEUM
Statutory Address 1:: BLACKBURN MUSEUM, MUSEUM STREET

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BLACKBURN MUSEUM, MUSEUM STREET

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

District:: Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 68167 28336

Details

SD 6828 SW 796- /4/10020

BLACKBURN MUSEUM STREET (East side) Blackburn Museum

GV II Library, museum and art gallery, now museum and art gallery. 1872-4, by Thomas Edward Collcutt of Woodzell & Collcutt, with sculpture by C.W Seale of London; enlarged in C19, altered in C20. Coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, steeply-pitched slate roof (now hipped but formerly with gables over the outer bays of both facades), red ridge tiles. Broad L-shaped plan on corner site facing west, with extension at east end. Free Gothic style with some Arts-and-Crafts detailing. Two storeys, 1:3:1 bays in a symmetrical design formerly with gables over the outer bays; with a plinth, carved foliated impost bands to both floors (differing), a similarly carved cornice and a plain parapet, all these carried round. The ground floor has a wide and deeply splayed 2-centred entrance archway chamfered in 4 orders, furnished with wrought-iron gates with lettered metal banners in Arts-and-Crafts style and leading to an internal porch with steps up and tiled side walls including pictorial panels depicting Painting and Poetry (left) and Science and Labour (right); and above the arch a stone pentice with a richly foliated carved panel. Flanking the entrance the inner bays have tall 2-centred arched one-light windows and the outer bays have windows of 2 similar lights, all these windows in sunk panels. At 1st floor the centre and outer bays have large 2-centred arches with double-chamfered surrounds, carved impost bands, and quatrefoil windows in the heads, below which those in the outer bays have 3-light mullioned windows and that in the centre has a carved panel (see below); the inner bays have square windows of 3 transomed arched lights above the impost band and carved panels below. The set of 3 panels contain bas relief sculpture of figures in ancient and medieval costume representing Art (left), Literature (centre) and Science (right). In the left return to Richmond Terrace (likewise lacking gables to the outer bays), the fenestration of the original range of 1:4:1 bays follows the pattern of inner and outer bays at the front (except that at ground floor the outer bays have 1-light windows and the inner have 2-light windows), and beneath the 1st-floor windows are four similar but more interestingly detailed relief panels representing contemporary Commerce, Textiles, Iron Founding and Agriculture. Continued to the east is a short 3-window symmetrical extension in similar style, with a large arched window containing a relief panel flanked by enriched blank arches containing carved shields.

INTERIOR: entrance hall containing staircase with wrought-iron balustrading; former library hall to rear of this with 2-centred arcade formerly separating reference library from lending library, with carved foliated capitals to the piers but now blocked; former gallery to reference library now partitioned. Three exhibition halls at 1st floor. Despite mutilation caused by removal of all gables, retains much detailing typical of 1870s Gothic Revival. Forms group with Richmond Terrace to north (q.v.) and old Town Hall to south (q.v.). Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SD6816728336

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Legacy System number:: 418833
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.