Greyfriars' Museum
GREYFRIARS' MUSEUM, BROADGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388472
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Greyfriars' Museum
- Statutory Address:
- GREYFRIARS' MUSEUM, BROADGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1388472
- Date first listed:
- 08-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Greyfriars' Museum
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREYFRIARS' MUSEUM, BROADGATE
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:
- GREYFRIARS' MUSEUM, BROADGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lincolnshire
- District:
- Lincoln (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 97759 71248
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771SE BROADGATE
1941-1/12/51 (West side)
08/10/53 Greyfriars' Museum
GV I
Remains of the infirmary of the Franciscan friary. c1230 and
late C13, with mid C19 additions. Converted to a mechanics'
institute 1883, and restored and converted to a museum
1905-1907 by William Watkins. Dressed stone and brick, with
ashlar dressings, plain tile and slate roofs with a C19 brick
side wall stack.
EXTERIOR: chamfered eaves, coped gables, with cross to east.
Undercroft plus upper storey.
Main building, 9 bays, has 7 C19 buttresses and 8 C19 double
chamfered barred windows. Above, nine 2-light windows with
chamfered surrounds. To left, a lozenge-shaped datestone,
1833.
East end has, above, a C13 3-light window with Y-tracery, and
an oval window above it. West end has angle buttresses and a
C20 Tudor arched 3-light window. North side has a C19 2 storey
lean-to stair enclosure.
Mid C19 addition to east, single storey, has a central door
flanked by single windows, all pointed.
INTERIOR: undercroft, 9 bays long by 2 bays wide, has
octagonal piers and responds with moulded capitals and bases,
single chamfered ribs and small bosses. North side has 6
blocked windows to east and doorway to west. Upper floor has
to north a C13 door and 3 round headed windows, all blocked,
and a fireplace with shouldered lintel. North-east corner has
a pointed recess. Restored common rafter roof with arch braces
to east and scissor braces to west, both with double collars.
This building is said to be the earliest surviving building in
England of the Franciscan order. Scheduled monument, County
No.25.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 508-509; York Archaeological Papers: Stocker
DA: The remains of the Franciscan friary in Lincoln (etc):
York: 1984-; Hewett C: English Cathedral and Monastic
Carpentry: 1985-).
Listing NGR: SK9775971248
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485917
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 508-509
Hewett, C, English Cathedral and Monastic Carpentry, (1985)
Stocker, D A, York Archaeological Papers in The Remains of the Franciscan Friary in Lincoln (etc), (1984)
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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