Exchequergate

EXCHEQUERGATE, EXCHEQUERGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1388541
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:
Exchequergate
Statutory Address:
EXCHEQUERGATE, EXCHEQUERGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1388541
Date first listed:
08-Oct-1953
Date of most recent amendment:
20-Dec-1999
List Entry Name:
Exchequergate
Statutory Address 1:
EXCHEQUERGATE, EXCHEQUERGATE

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.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
EXCHEQUERGATE, EXCHEQUERGATE

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 97677 71803

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NE EXCHEQUERGATE
1941-1/9/254 (West side)
08/10/53 Exchequergate
(Formerly Listed as:
MINSTER YARD
Exchequergate)

GV I

West gatehouse to the Close wall. Mid C14. Restored C19.
Ashlar with asphalt roof. Chamfered plinth, 2 string courses,
coped parapet and gables with finials.
3 storeys, 5 bays. East front has a central moulded archway
flanked by turrets with crenellated tops. Beyond, single
smaller archways and single lancet windows. All these openings
have hoodmoulds and mask stops. Above each of the 3 archways,
a canopied niche. Beyond, on either side, a single lancet with
hoodmould. Above again, a small central loop, and beyond,
foiled single lancets.
West side has a similar central arch flanked by 2-light
pointed arched windows, and beyond, smaller arches, all with
linked hoodmoulds. To the left, at a higher level, a smaller
plain lancet. Above, a central canopied niche, flanked by
single loops, and beyond, 2-light pointed arched windows.
Above again, 5 smaller 2-light pointed arched windows. Under
the archways, stone diagonal rib vaults with bosses and brick
cells, chamfered doorways, and paired shouldered openings for
shops, now blocked.
INTERIOR not inspected.
As well as serving as a gateway, this building formerly
contained a number of rented shops. A western gateway was
demolished between c1796 and c1816.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 484; Jones S: The Survey of Ancient Houses in
Lincoln: Lincoln: 1987-: 91-101).




Listing NGR: SK9767771803

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
485986
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 91-101

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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.

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