Usher Art Gallery

USHER ART GALLERY, LINDUM ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1388632
Date first listed:
15-Aug-1973
Statutory Address:
USHER ART GALLERY, LINDUM ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1388632
Date first listed:
15-Aug-1973
Statutory Address 1:
USHER ART GALLERY, LINDUM ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
USHER ART GALLERY, LINDUM ROAD

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 97782 71561

Details

LINCOLN

SK9771NE LINDUM ROAD
1941-1/9/196 (West side)
15/08/73 Usher Art Gallery

GV II*

Art gallery. 1926-27. By Sir Reginald Blomfield. Ashlar and
brick with slate roofs.
Plinth, rusticated quoins, bays defined by giant pilasters,
pseudo-frieze with bucrania, entablature, parapet and
balustrade. 2 storeys, the upper storey blind, 7 x 4 bays.
Projecting rusticated centre with open pediment and raised
parapet with urns. Steps to moulded doorcase with cornice on
consoles and small flanking lights. Above it, a tall round
headed window with keystone and wrought-iron balcony. On
either side, 3 glazing bar windows to the ground floor.
Rear elevation has a projecting centre with 3 windows with
ornamental grilles, and above, a round window. All the windows
have glazing bars.
INTERIOR has an open well stone staircase with landings, and
patterned steel balustrade. Ionic arcade to stairwell, and
round arched openings elsewhere. Galleries have moulded beamed
ceilings with cornices. Top floor galleries have coved
ceilings and arched roof lights.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: Pevsner N: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 509; Fellows RA: Sir Reginald Blomfield: an
Edwardian Architect).



Listing NGR: SK9778271561

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 509
Fellows, R A, Sir Reginald Blomfield. An Edwardian Architect, (1985)

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