Piers, Wall and Railings to South of the Sands Sports Centre
PIERS, WALL AND RAILINGS TO SOUTH OF THE SANDS SPORTS CENTRE, NEWMARKET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297370
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Piers, Wall and Railings to South of the Sands Sports Centre
- Statutory Address:
- PIERS, WALL AND RAILINGS TO SOUTH OF THE SANDS SPORTS CENTRE, NEWMARKET ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297370
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Piers, Wall and Railings to South of the Sands Sports Centre
- Statutory Address 1:
- PIERS, WALL AND RAILINGS TO SOUTH OF THE SANDS SPORTS CENTRE, NEWMARKET ROAD
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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:
- PIERS, WALL AND RAILINGS TO SOUTH OF THE SANDS SPORTS CENTRE, NEWMARKET ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 40243 56422
Details
NY4056SW
671-1/8/217
CARLISLE
NEWMARKET ROAD (North West side)
Piers, wall and railings to south of the Sands Sports Centre
GV
II
Wall, railings and piers for Cattle Market, now around Sports Centre car park. Probably 1895. Low chamfered sandstone wall with chamfered coping, surmounted by heavy cast-iron speared railings, each alternate rail has a speared ball finial, with interval columns. Red sandstone piers, those at the gateless gateway reduced in height; squared shaft with round moulded angles, on moulded base and modillioned segmental capitals.
HISTORY: The Sands were a series of islands between the 2 channels of the River Eden which were used for a cattle market from medieval times. A new market was laid out in 1816 and in 1895 this was contracted and railed in. It continued in use as a market into the 1950s, but became a car park and in the 1980s a Sports Centre was built on the site. Carlisle Journal (1894) states that the contract for the railings was let to Messrs Raybold & Co of Workington for £1,112.4s. However, in 1895, The Lion Foundry Co Ltd supplied railings for the Cattle Market, Cumbria County Record Office (Ca/C7/Box20). A photograph of 1898 shows these railings in position, see perriam (1988). See under Bridgewater Road for another section of these railings.
(Carlisle Journal: 13 April 1894; Perriam DR: Carlisle in Camera: 1988-: P.10).
Listing NGR: NY4024256422
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386811
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Perriam, D R, Carlisle in Camera, (1988), 10
Carlisle Journal in 13 April, (1894)
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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