STONEBOW AND GUILDHALL

STONEBOW AND GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1388605
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: STONEBOW AND GUILDHALL
Statutory Address:: STONEBOW AND GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1388605
Date first listed:: 08-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:: STONEBOW AND GUILDHALL
Statutory Address 1:: STONEBOW AND GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET

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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Location

Statutory Address:: STONEBOW AND GUILDHALL, HIGH STREET

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 97526 71237

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771SE HIGH STREET 1941-1/12/155 Stonebow and Guildhall 08/10/53

GV I

Town gateway, guildhall and shops. Late C15 and early C16, altered C17 and mid C18, restored and remodelled 1885-90 by J L Pearson. Ashlar with lead roof behind parapet. EXTERIOR: moulded string courses and sill band, crenellated parapet. South front has a roll moulded segmental central arch flanked by single round buttresses with canopied niches containing figures. Above, a tablet with pilaster surround with the arms of James I, and above again, two 2-light mullioned windows. Over them, a stepped gable containing a clock. Beyond, on either side, 2 walkway arches, those to the right original, with hoodmoulds. Beyond again, 2 windows. Above, to left, four sashes, C19, and to right, 3 smaller sashes set in C15 openings with hoodmoulds. All these openings have basket arches. Above again, on either side, 2 cusped flat headed mullioned windows. North side has a plainer central arch, flanked by a single walkway arch to left and 2 to the right. Over the inner archways, small 2-light windows. Above, three 2-light pointed arched windows and parapet gable with clock. Under the walkway arches, late C19 shopfronts. INTERIOR: guildhall, on the first floor, has strutted kingpost roof with arch braces to the purlins in the outer bays. Tie beams have bosses. Mid C18 panelling with the arms of George II set below a segmental pediment on Corinthian columns. Scheduled Ancient Monument, County No.37. (Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire: London: 1989-: 503).

Listing NGR: SK9752671237

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Legacy System number:: 486050
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 503

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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.