PIERS AND LOW WALL AROUND CASTLE PRECINCT TO SOUTH OF CASTLE

PIERS AND LOW WALL AROUND CASTLE PRECINCT TO SOUTH OF CASTLE, CASTLE PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298406
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: PIERS AND LOW WALL AROUND CASTLE PRECINCT TO SOUTH OF CASTLE
Statutory Address:: PIERS AND LOW WALL AROUND CASTLE PRECINCT TO SOUTH OF CASTLE, CASTLE PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1298406
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1995
List Entry Name:: PIERS AND LOW WALL AROUND CASTLE PRECINCT TO SOUTH OF CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: PIERS AND LOW WALL AROUND CASTLE PRECINCT TO SOUTH OF CASTLE, CASTLE PARK

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: PIERS AND LOW WALL AROUND CASTLE PRECINCT TO SOUTH OF CASTLE, CASTLE PARK

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County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SD 47318 61797

Details

LANCASTER

SD4761NW CASTLE PARK 1685-1/6/60 (North side) Piers and low wall around Castle precinct to south of Castle

GV II

Set of 12 piers and a dwarf wall, originally supporting railings. Early C19. Sandstone ashlar. Octagonal in plan, with a faceted pointed cap above a pronounced string course. Near the centre of the south side a pair of piers originally flanked an iron gate. HISTORY: placed to demarcate the boundary of the Castle Park which was laid out on and near the castle ditch. Not marked on Binns' map of 1821, but clearly shown on the 5 feet to the mile Ordnance Survey map surveyed in 1845. (Ordnance Survey: Map of Lancaster at Five Feet to One Mile: Southampton: 1849-).

Listing NGR: SD4731761798

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Legacy System number:: 383091
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.