Public Library
PUBLIC LIBRARY, FREE SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388544
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library
- Statutory Address:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, FREE SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1388544
- Date first listed:
- 02-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Public Library
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, FREE SCHOOL LANE
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:
- PUBLIC LIBRARY, FREE SCHOOL LANE
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 97734 71280
Details
LINCOLN
SK9771SE FREE SCHOOL LANE
1941-1/12/118 (East side)
02/10/69 Public Library
II
Public library. 1914. By Sir R Blomfield. Ashlar and brick,
with hipped slate roofs and leaded dome. French Baroque style.
EXTERIOR: channelled rustication, eaves cornice, quoins, coped
parapet with baluster panels. Windows are mainly glazing bar
sashes with projecting architraves with keystones.
Projecting square domed centre, 2 storeys, with urn finials to
the parapet, topped with an open cupola. Projecting arched
moulded doorcase with enriched keystone and inscribed lintel.
Above it, an oval window flanked by festoons and beyond,
single windows. Above again, a window with segmental pediment,
with a crest in the apron.
Flanking wings, single storey, have 4 windows each.
Projecting square terminal pavilions have each a single
window, and ball finials to the parapet. Each return has 2
similarly articulated windows.
INTERIOR: vestibule has plaster wall panels, dentilled
cornice, and 3 doorcases with eared architraves and oval
fanlights. On the east side, a Doric colonnade, 4 bays, with a
central round arched opening. Screen wall with pilasters and a
central round headed window flanked by single doorways.
Book room has plaster cross beam ceiling with a central light.
Fitted oak bookcases. Some similar bookcases in the smaller
specialist book rooms.
(Buildings of England : Lincolnshire: N Pevsner: Lincolnshire:
London: 1989-: 508).
Listing NGR: SK9773471280
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 485989
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, Antram, N, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1989), 508
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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