Castle Museum and Art Gallery
CASTLE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, CASTLE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1271188
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Museum and Art Gallery
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, CASTLE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1271188
- Date first listed:
- 11-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Museum and Art Gallery
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, CASTLE ROAD
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:
- CASTLE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, CASTLE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Nottingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 56914 39447
Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK5639SE CASTLE ROAD 646-1/22/136 (West side (off)) 11/08/52 Castle Museum and Art Gallery
GV I
Ducal palace, now museum and art gallery. 1674-79. By Samuel Marsh of Lincoln for William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle. Interior refitted 1719, by Sir John Vanbrugh. Burnt down 1831 during Reform Bill riots. Extensively remodelled as museum and art gallery 1876-78 by TC Hine of Nottingham for Nottingham Corporation. Restored 1908 and later C20. Provincial Baroque style. Ashlar, with hipped roofs, glazed and slated. EXTERIOR: basement windows are mostly 2-light plain sashes with stone mullions. First floor windows are stone mullioned cross casements. Second floor dummy windows are mainly C19, square, with round-arched stone tracery. The original east elevation has basement, piano nobile and attics, remodelled internally as 2 storeys. U-plan, 9 x 3 bays, with rear wings flanking a central courtyard. The main entrance was transposed from east to west by Hine. East front, fully rusticated, has modillion main cornice and C19 pierced balustrade. Slightly projecting centre, 5 bays, divided by Corinthian half-columns, the side bays divided by pilasters. Basement has reglazed windows and a central door, C19, all with double keystones. Central window, with columns and cornice, flanked by 4 pedimented windows, all with balustrades. Over the centre, an equestrian statue. Attic has original 2-light windows with strapwork surrounds. Entrance front, to west, has a curved Tuscan colonnade, C19, covering a triple niche, with doors at each end. Above, former doorcase with columns and segmental pediment, flanked by single windows. Returns have recessed bays above the colonnade, and 2 windows on each floor. Outer facades, to west, have 3 windows. South front has a rusticated basement with round-arched rusticated porch and balcony, flanked by 3 round-arched French windows. Above, 3 corniced windows with rusticated surrounds. Attic has C19 windows. North front, 4 windows, has regular C19 fenestration. Sub-basement service range, 9 windows, with balustrade and arcaded sunken courtyard. INTERIOR has ashlar doorcases with segmental broken pediments. 2 painted ashlar open well stairs and landings with cast-iron balustrades, coved ceiling and cross beamed skylight to stair wells. Ground floor gallery to south has moulded cross beams on shaped corbels. Ground floor rooms on the east side have jack-arched fireproof ceilings. First floor galleries have coved ceilings with moulded cornices and cross beamed skylights. Long gallery is divided by a round-arched ashlar screen with pierced pedestals. This building was the first municipal museum and art gallery in England. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London: 1979-: 225-228; Get to know Nottingham: Hamilton A: Nottingham's Royal Castle: Nottingham: 1980-; Transactions of the Thoroton Society: Drage C: Nottingham Castle: Nottingham: 1991-).
Listing NGR: SK5691439447
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 455781
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire, (1979), 225-228
Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire in The Thoroton Society, (1991)
Hamilton, A, Get To Know Nottingham in Nottinghams Royal Castle, (1980)
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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